Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Political observer

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

MA in Middle Eastern Studies

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Independent Expert

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

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

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)