Experts

Retired Vice-admiral, RIAC expert

MGIMO University

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

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

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies, RIAC expert

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

RIAC Expert

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General, RIAC expert

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

Independent expert

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

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna, RIAC Expert

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

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Master Student at MGIMO-University

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies, RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member