Experts

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

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

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

President, Synergia Foundation

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

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

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)