Experts

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative, RIAC Expert

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU, RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert, Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department, RIAC expert

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies, RIAC Expert

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council

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

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, RIAC Expert