Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate, RIAC expert.

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

RIAC Member

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project at PIR-Center, RIAC expert

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

MGIMO-University

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University, RIAC Expert

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

RIAC Expert

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)