Experts

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Independent journalist

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Master of Arts in International Relations (MGIMO University), Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Retired Vice-admiral

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs