Experts

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

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

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

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

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University