Experts

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council, Graduate Student at the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ph.D. in History

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

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Director of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Expert at the Middle East Institute