Experts

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Independent expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

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

PhD in Political Science

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

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

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member