Experts

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

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

Independent Expert

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

MA in Middle Eastern Studies

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

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

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

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

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

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

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

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Political observer

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

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

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

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

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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