Experts

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America