Experts

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

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

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

PhD in Political Science

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

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