Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

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

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

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

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

MGIMO-University

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University