Experts

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

RAS Institute of Economics

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

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

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

RIAC Member

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Ph.D, researcher Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise