Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

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

Journalist, Sinologist

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

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Political Scientist

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Master of Arts in International Relations (MGIMO University), Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)