Experts

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Independent Analyst

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member