Experts

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

RIAC Expert

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Political Scientist

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

University of Birmingham

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Independent Analyst

Independent expert