Experts

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

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

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in history

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

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

President, Synergia Foundation

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)