Experts

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

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

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

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

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

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

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University