Experts

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Master Student at MGIMO-University

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Independent Analyst

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Post-graduate student in the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics, Economy, Security international educational program at the Far Eastern State University

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Former senior Australian diplomat

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

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

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS