Experts

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert

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

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

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

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia 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

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate, RIAC expert.

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

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Political scientist, Moldova, RIAC expert

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin