Experts

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

INSOR Director for International Development

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

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

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

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

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Independent analyst

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

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

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

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

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom