Experts

PhD in history, RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

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

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Independent Expert

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project at PIR-Center, RIAC expert

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation