Experts

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

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

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Political Scientist

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

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)

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Leading analyst, Center for Energy and Digital Economy Stretegic Research, MGIMO University. Founder, President of Honour, MGIMO Arctic Student Research Club

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University