Experts

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent Expert

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

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

RIAC Member

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President