Experts

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

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

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

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

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Head of Dual Master's Programs, Master's Programs Directorate, MGIMO-University

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University, RIAC expert

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University, RIAC Expert

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

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

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

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)

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Political Analyst, RIAC Expert