Experts

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Independent expert

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Political Scientist

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

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, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development