Experts

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Independent Analyst

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of US and Canada, RAS Full Member

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

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

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

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)