Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

PhD in Economics

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

PhD (Political Science), Leading Researcher, Head, Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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 in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

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

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President