Experts

Political Scientist

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

RIAC Expert

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Independent expert

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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, RIAC Expert

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