Experts

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent Expert

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

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

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS