Experts

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

RIAC Member

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

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in History, independent journalist

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Independent expert

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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)

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Ph.D. in History

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences