Experts

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

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Expert on Development Assistace

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN, RIAC Expert

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

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

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

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

MGIMO University

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

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, RIAC expert

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Former senior Australian diplomat, RIAC Expert

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Management Board of Russkiy Mir Foundation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin