Experts

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

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, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Editor in chief, PIRC

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

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

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

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

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Independent analyst

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)