Experts
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., 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
PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies
Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations
Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert
PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University
President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts
PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University
Expert at the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies
Independent Expert
PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University
PIR Center Director
Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC
Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council
RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC
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
Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh
Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations
Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member
Independent Analyst
Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen
Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member
PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development
Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

















