Experts

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

RIAC Expert

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Political Scientist

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert