Experts

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Independent expert

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

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

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Observer, International Affairs monthly

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences