Experts

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

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

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

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

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

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

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

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics