Experts

Doctor of Political Science, Director, Head of the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

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

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD., HSE Professor

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand