Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

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

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Independent Expert

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies