Experts

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

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

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University