Experts

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

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

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata, RIAC expert

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet, RIAC Expert

RIAC member

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

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

RIAC Expert

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University; RIAC expert

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

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

PhD., HSE Professor

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Independent expert

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University