Experts

Independent Analyst

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

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

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

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

MGIMO University

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran