Experts

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Doctor of History, RIAC member

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

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)

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

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