Experts

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

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

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

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

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

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

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Independent analyst

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)