Experts

Junior Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

PhD in Political Science

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Independent Analyst

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Doctor of Economics, Head of the Center for Strategic Analysis and Planning, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

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)

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent Expert

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

RAS Institute of Economics

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences