Experts

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

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

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD (Political Science), Leading Researcher, Head, Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

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

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

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

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

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

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University