Experts

RIAC member

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

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

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Political Scientist

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

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

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

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member