Experts

Independent Expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

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

Expert on Development Assistace

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Ph.D. in History

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

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

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Independent Analyst

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD in Political Science

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Political Analyst

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member