Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

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

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

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

INSOR Director for International Development

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

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

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India