Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

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

Research Fellow

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India