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)

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at SIPRI

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

INSOR Director for International Development

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

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

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

PhD in History, Political Studies Center of the RAS Institute of Economics

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

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

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

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts