Experts

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African 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

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

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

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

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

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