Experts

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

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

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Political scientist, Moldova, RIAC expert

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

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

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university, RIAC expert

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

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

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert