Experts

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Political observer

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

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

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

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

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

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

MA in Middle Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

Independent Expert