Experts

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

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

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

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

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

RIAC Publishing Editor

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

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

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

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

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

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC