Experts

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

PhD in Technical Sciences, Founder, Aigents, Architect, SingularityNET

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Political Analyst

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey