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)

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

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies, RIAC expert

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS, RIAC expert

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative, RIAC Expert

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)