Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

RIAC member

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university, RIAC expert

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

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

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University