Experts

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Dr. of History, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Latin America journal, RIAC Member

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

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

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Independent analyst

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan