Experts

University of Birmingham

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel 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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

Political Scientist

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute