Experts

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

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

RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University, RIAC expert

Independent Analyst

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

Retired Vice-admiral, RIAC expert

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

RIAC Expert

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, RIAC expert

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom