Experts

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

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

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

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)