Experts

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

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

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Independent journalist

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in History, Head of Section for New Challenges in South and Southeast Asia at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS)

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Former senior Australian diplomat

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

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)

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

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

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

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