Experts

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Ph.D., RIAC Acting Director of Programs

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

Chairman of the Board of the CREON Group, RIAC Member

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council, Graduate Student at the MGIMO University

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia