Experts

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Independent journalist

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

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

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

Political Analyst

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Researcher at the Department for the Study of Israel and Jewish Communities of the RAS

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Research Fellow

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal