Experts

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

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

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

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

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

PhD in history

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

PhD in political science

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

INSOR Director for International Development