Experts

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Representative, Resource Agribusiness Group

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

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

MGIMO University

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Political observer

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

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

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

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

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University