Experts

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

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)

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

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

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Political scientist, Moldova

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

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

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