Experts

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

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University; Non-resident Scholar, Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute, RIAC expert

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS, RIAC Expert

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts, RIAC Expert

MA, MGIMO University

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at SIPRI, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

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

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine