Experts

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

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

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)

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

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

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

MA, MGIMO University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

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

Analyst at CNA Corporation

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

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

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS

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

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

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)

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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