Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Independent journalist

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

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 History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, independent journalist

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

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

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member