Experts

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

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

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

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

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

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

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Independent Analyst

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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)

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

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