Experts

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus, RIAC Expert

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)

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts, RIAC Expert

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

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. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Chairman of the Board of the CREON Group, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University; Non-resident Scholar, Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute, RIAC expert

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

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

Member of the Committee on defense and security of The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC member.

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member