Experts

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

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

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

PhD in history

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental 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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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