Experts

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Former senior Australian diplomat

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Political observer

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, RUDN

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal