Experts

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Researcher at the Department for the Study of Israel and Jewish Communities of the RAS

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

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

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

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub), 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)

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor in the Department of World Economy and World Finance of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, RIAC expert

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

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

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), RIAC Expert

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for international cooperation in the Arctic and Antarctic, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arctic center", RIAC member

Independent Analyst

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RIAC Expert

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN