Experts

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues, RIAC Expert

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems, RIAC Expert

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Independent Analyst

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

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University; RIAC expert

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Italian Republic and in the Republic of San Marino

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

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

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

MGIMO University

Research fellow at Insitute of Latin Anerica of RAS

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

RIAC Expert

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

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)

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge, RIAC expert

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies