Experts

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

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

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Management Board of Russkiy Mir Foundation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

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

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

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

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

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

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

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

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, RIAC Expert

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

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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 Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)