Experts

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Acting Director of Programs

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

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

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

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

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

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

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

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh