Experts

RIAC Expert

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Associate fellow with the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

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

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

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Independent Analyst

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant; RIAC expert

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

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

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Research Fellow at the European Leadership Network

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

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