Experts

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

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

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Independent Expert

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

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

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

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

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president