Experts

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent Expert

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent Analyst

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

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

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies