Experts

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Journalist, Sinologist

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Dean of the School of Financial Economics at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

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

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting