Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

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)

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

Ph.D. in History

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

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

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member