Experts

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Research Assistant at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Representative, Resource Agribusiness Group

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

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

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science