Experts

Independent Analyst

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

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

Independent expert

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Political Scientist

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University