Experts

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge, RIAC expert

PhD in History, Senior research fellow, The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

RIAC Expert

Director of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

RIAC Expert, Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF), RIAC Expert

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues, RIAC Expert

Expert at the Laboratory of Asia-Pacific International Institutions and Multilateral Cooperation, Far Eastern State University School of Regional and International Studies, Сorrespondent of the Regional News Agency Data

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ph.D., RIAC Acting Director of Programs

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN, RIAC expert

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