Experts

Independent Analyst

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

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

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra