Experts

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine, RIAC Expert

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Independent expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Associate professor, Department of Diplomacy, Vice-Rector for HR Policy, MGIMO University

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert