Experts

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

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

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

PhD in Political Science

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

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

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