Experts

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

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

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Independent Analyst

RIAC Member

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

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

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

MGIMO University

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences