Experts

Expert in the Foreign Policy and Security division at the Center for Strategic Research

Independent journalist

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, Expert of RIAC

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

Expert at the Middle East Institute, RIAC Expert

Master Student at MGIMO-University

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University, RIAC expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

RIAC Member

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

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics