Experts

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

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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)

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project, RIAC Expert

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Independent analyst

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

Independent journalist and researcher

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

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

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

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