Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental 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

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

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Observer, International Affairs monthly

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Corresponding member, RAS, Dr. of Economics, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty for International Energy Business, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

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

Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, RIAC member

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Representative, Resource Agribusiness Group

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

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

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