Experts

Independent Expert

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)

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Journalist, Sinologist

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University, RIAC expert

President of the IMEMO, RAS Full Member, Chairman of the RIAC Scientific Council, RIAC Member.

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

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

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert