Experts

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate, RIAC expert.

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant; RIAC expert

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

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

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

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

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)