Experts

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative, RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies, RIAC expert

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero), RIAC expert

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of US and Canada, RAS Full Member

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

RIAC Expert

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century