Experts

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, RIAC Expert

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

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Associate fellow with the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

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

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge, RIAC expert

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

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Doctor of Sciences in History, Rector, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Former senior Australian diplomat, RIAC Expert

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine