Experts

Independent Expert

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Research Fellow

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

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

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

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

Independent Analyst

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO