Experts

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

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

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

RIAC Publishing Editor

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

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

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

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

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

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

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University