Experts

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at SIPRI, RIAC Expert

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems, RIAC Expert

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

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)

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; RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

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

Independent journalist

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

MGIMO-University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

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

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Research Fellow at the European Leadership Network

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State 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

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts