Experts

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Independent journalist, RIAC expert

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

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

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

RIAC member

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS), RIAC Expert