Experts

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

MA, MGIMO University

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Head of Dual Master's Programs, Master's Programs Directorate, MGIMO-University

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Independent journalist

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.