Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

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

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, RUDN

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

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

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS), RIAC Expert

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council, Graduate Student at the MGIMO University

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

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Visiting Fellow at the Applied Policy Research Institute, based in Yerevan

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

RIAC Expert, Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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