Experts

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

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

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

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

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