Experts

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

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

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

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

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, RIAC Expert

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

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow