Experts

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

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

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

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

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

RIAC Member

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

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

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Ph.D. in History

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies