Experts

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

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

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

Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Vietnam and ASEAN, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of RAS

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

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

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Journalist, Sinologist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

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

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Master Student at MGIMO-University

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation