Experts

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

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine, RIAC Expert

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

RIAC Expert

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member