Experts

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Research Fellow at the European Leadership Network

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

University of Birmingham

Independent expert

Ph.D, Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of the IR Department at Kirikkale University, Türkiye

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Vice President of the Schiller Institute USA, National Spokesman for Lyndon LaRouche

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Political observer

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

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

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

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

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

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

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

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Independent Expert

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

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

Independent Analyst

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

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

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Political Analyst

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

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

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

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

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

PhD fellow at the Chair of International Law, PFUR Law School

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

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 IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, researcher Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Ph.D., RIAC Acting Director of Programs

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Ph.D. in History

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

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

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

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

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Research Fellow

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

PhD in Political Science

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America, RAS Corresponding Member

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State 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

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, RUDN

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

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

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

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

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Head of Dual Master's Programs, Master's Programs Directorate, MGIMO-University

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

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

President of the IMEMO, RAS Full Member, Chairman of the RIAC Scientific Council, RIAC Member.

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

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in Political Science

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University

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

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

Master Student at MGIMO-University

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

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

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

PIR Center Director

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Economy, Professor, Professor, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

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

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

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

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

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

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Independent journalist

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

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

PhD in Economics

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

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

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Former senior Australian diplomat

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

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

PhD in Political Science

Chairman of the Board of the CREON Group, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Academic librarian at the University of East London

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

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

Journalist, Sinologist

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

PhD in Technical Sciences, Founder, Aigents, Architect, SingularityNET

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

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

PhD., HSE Professor

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

PhD in History, Expert on Latin America expert

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Visiting Fellow at the Applied Policy Research Institute, based in Yerevan

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Analyst at CNA Corporation

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

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet

PhD in political science

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

PhD in History, independent journalist

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Retired Vice-admiral

Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Independent Analyst

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

INSOR Director for International Development

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

PhD in History, Senior research fellow, The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

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

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Independent Expert

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

Research fellow at Insitute of Latin Anerica of RAS

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

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

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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 Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Independent Analyst

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

PhD in Political Science

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Political Scientist

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

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

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Independent journalist

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

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

Independent analyst

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

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

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Independent Analyst

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, at the Department of International Relations, Goa University

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Political Analyst

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

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

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

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

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

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA