Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

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

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

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

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

INSOR Director for International Development