Experts

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

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

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

PIR Center Director

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

President of the IMEMO, RAS Full Member, Chairman of the RIAC Scientific Council, RIAC Member.

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of US and Canada, RAS Full Member

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University