Experts

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Expert on Development Assistace

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland