Experts

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent Analyst

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University