Experts

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO 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

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

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

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Political scientist, Moldova

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PIR Center Director

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Institute of Oriental Studies

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI