Experts

Chairman of the Board of the CREON Group, RIAC Member

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)

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

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

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

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

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian 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

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

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

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

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.