Experts

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Political Analyst

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

MGIMO University

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

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

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University