Experts

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)

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Political Analyst

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

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

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Observer, International Affairs monthly