Experts

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

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

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in political science

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Independent Expert

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D. in History, 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

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

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

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences