Experts

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

RIAC Expert

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

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

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

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub), RIAC Expert

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

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

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Chairman of CREON Capital, Chairman the Board of Directors of Creon Energy, RIAC Member

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Independent journalist and researcher

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Independent Analyst

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert

Senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic and director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University