Experts

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Doctor of History, RIAC member

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Independent Expert

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

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Corresponding member, RAS, Dr. of Economics, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty for International Energy Business, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert

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

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst