Experts

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

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

Independent Expert

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

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

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

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

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

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

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

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

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)

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

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

MA in Middle Eastern Studies

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

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

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

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

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 Economics, RIAC Member

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

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

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

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

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

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