Experts

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University

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

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Junior Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member