Experts

Senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic and director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

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

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

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

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University, RIAC expert

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

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

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project, RIAC Expert

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