Experts

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine, RIAC Expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

University of Birmingham

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS