Experts

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economy, Professor, Professor, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates

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

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)

Observer, International Affairs monthly

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

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

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

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at SIPRI

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20