Experts

Independent journalist

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Editor in chief, PIRC

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Master of Arts in International Relations (MGIMO University), Independent Analyst

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

PhD in Economics

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

Retired Vice-admiral

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

PhD in History, independent journalist

PhD., HSE Professor