Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

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)

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University, RIAC Expert

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

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

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata, RIAC expert

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies, RIAC Expert

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

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert and Program Manager

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

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

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

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

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, RIAC expert

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative, RIAC Expert

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University