Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Researcher at the Department for the Study of Israel and Jewish Communities of the RAS

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences