Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science; Consultant, PIR Center

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

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

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

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

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

Master of Arts in International Relations (MGIMO University), Independent Analyst

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.