Experts

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

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

Retired Vice-admiral

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Visiting Fellow at the Applied Policy Research Institute, based in Yerevan

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

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

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

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

PhD in history

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Chairman of the Board of the CREON Group, RIAC Member