Experts

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet, RIAC Expert

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, RIAC Expert

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University, RIAC Expert

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero), RIAC expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies, RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Industry Institute of the National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

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

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities, RIAC Expert

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University