Experts

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

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

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

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

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

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

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Doctor of Economics, Executive Director, Russian National Committee on BRICS Research

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member