Experts

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Ph.D., RIAC Acting Director of Programs

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Editor-in-Chief of the Nuclear Physics and Engineering Journal, RIAC Member

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems