Experts

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

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

Head of Dual Master's Programs, Master's Programs Directorate, MGIMO-University

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

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Independent journalist and researcher

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

RIAC Expert

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of pedagogical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Academy of Education, RIAC member

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

University of Birmingham

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project at PIR-Center, RIAC expert

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge