Experts

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

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

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Independent Analyst

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

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