Experts

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent journalist

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

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Former senior Australian diplomat

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

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

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

INSOR Director for International Development

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

PhD in History, Expert of ASEAN Center at MGIMO University under Russia’s Foreign Ministry

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in Economics

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS