Experts

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

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, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

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

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Independent Analyst

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"