Experts

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

PhD in History, independent journalist

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

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

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

RIAC member

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

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