Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent journalist and researcher

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Independent Analyst

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)