Experts

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

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

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

MGIMO University

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University