Experts

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

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Observer, International Affairs monthly

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

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

MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

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

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

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

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

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)

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

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