Experts

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

President, Synergia Foundation

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)

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

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

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Independent journalist

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine, RIAC Expert

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

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

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

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

President of Russian State University for the Humanities, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at SIPRI, RIAC Expert

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst