Experts

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero), RIAC expert

Political Analyst, RIAC Expert

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

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

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

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for international cooperation in the Arctic and Antarctic, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arctic center", RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Editor in chief, PIRC

PhD in History, Senior research fellow, The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General, RIAC expert

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association