Experts

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Independent Analyst

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative, RIAC Expert

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

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

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS