Experts

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

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

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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)

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Head of Dual Master's Programs, Master's Programs Directorate, MGIMO-University

Independent expert

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

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

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger