Experts

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

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

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, 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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Political Analyst

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president