Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

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

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

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

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

MA, MGIMO University

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

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