Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Political Scientist

University of Birmingham

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow