Experts

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

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

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Independent Analyst

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University