Experts

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

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

Independent Analyst

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

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

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

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

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations