Experts

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

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

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

RIAC Expert

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

RIAC Expert

Independent Analyst

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy; RIAC Expert

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra