Experts

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Independent Expert

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

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

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Buryatia Scientific Centre, Siberian Regional Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies, RIAC expert

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy; RIAC Expert

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

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine, RIAC Expert

Independent analyst

RIAC Member

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