Experts

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

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

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 in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

PIR Center Director

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

PhD in Economics

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

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

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies