Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

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

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

Editor in chief, PIRC

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

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

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

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

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

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

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

MGIMO University

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

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

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

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

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Dean of the School of Financial Economics at MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

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

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

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