Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent journalist

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Director, Head of the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

MGIMO-University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)