Experts

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

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

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute