Experts

RIAC member

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

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS, RIAC expert

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

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

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS), RIAC Expert

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

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

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF), RIAC Expert

President of Russian State University for the Humanities, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Analyst at CNA Corporation

RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey