Experts

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

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

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Master Student at MGIMO-University

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet

Visiting Fellow at the Applied Policy Research Institute, based in Yerevan

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Member of the Committee on defense and security of The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC member.

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member