Experts

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Post-Graduate Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Expert of the Institute for Contemporary International Studies

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

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