Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Post-Graduate Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Expert of the Institute for Contemporary International Studies

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

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

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

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

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

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

Ph.D. in History

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS