Experts

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

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

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Post-graduate student in the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics, Economy, Security international educational program at the Far Eastern State University

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

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

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

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

MGIMO-University