Experts

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

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Expert at the Middle East Institute

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

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Junior Research Fellow, Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

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

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

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