Experts

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Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Political Scientist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

University of Birmingham

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues