Experts

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

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

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)

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Political Scientist

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University