Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Independent Analyst

PhD in Political Science

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences