Experts

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Expert at the Laboratory of Asia-Pacific International Institutions and Multilateral Cooperation, Far Eastern State University School of Regional and International Studies, Сorrespondent of the Regional News Agency Data

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Independent journalist and researcher

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member