Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Independent Expert

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

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

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

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

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

RIAC Expert

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

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

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Institute of Oriental Studies

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

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)