Experts

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

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

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

RIAC Member

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

Political Analyst

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Research Fellow

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

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

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali