Experts

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, RUDN

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

MA, MGIMO University

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University, RIAC Expert

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

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

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

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

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

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)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

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

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member