Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General, RIAC expert

PhD fellow at the Chair of International Law, PFUR Law School

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

MGIMO University

PhD in History, Political Studies Center of the RAS Institute of Economics

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

Political Scientist

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

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

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata, RIAC expert

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project, RIAC Expert

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member