Experts

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

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

Independent Analyst

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

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

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

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

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Independent Expert

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

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

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

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

Doctor of History, 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

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University