Experts

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Independent journalist

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

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Independent analyst

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Management Board of Russkiy Mir Foundation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)