Experts

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

Independent Expert

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Central and Eastern Europe Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at MGIMO University; Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

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

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Independent journalist and researcher

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics