Experts

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

PIR Center Director

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

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Dean of the School of Financial Economics at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

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

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy