Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Retired Vice-admiral, RIAC expert

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

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

RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet, RIAC Expert

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Corresponding member, RAS, Dr. of Economics, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty for International Energy Business, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies, RIAC Expert

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