Experts

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS, RIAC expert

Political scientist, Moldova, RIAC expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University, RIAC expert

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Expert at the Middle East Institute, RIAC Expert

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities, RIAC expert

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

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)