Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

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

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Independent Expert