Experts

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

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

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

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

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation