Experts

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Independent expert

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member