Experts

RIAC member

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

MGIMO University

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Independent expert

Leading analyst, Center for Energy and Digital Economy Stretegic Research, MGIMO University. Founder, President of Honour, MGIMO Arctic Student Research Club

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

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

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member