Experts

Senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic and director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

Visiting Fellow at the Applied Policy Research Institute, based in Yerevan

RIAC Expert, 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

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Independent Analyst

Expert in the Foreign Policy and Security division at the Center for Strategic Research

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Political Analyst

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU, RIAC expert

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

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

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

MGIMO University

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Expert at the Middle East Institute, RIAC Expert

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Independent Analyst

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University; Non-resident Scholar, Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute, RIAC expert

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow