Experts

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)