How many people work at PIR Center? It is not so easy to answer this question at once, for the counts may differ. According to the staff list, it comes out around twenty employees. But what if you consider PIR Center Advisory Board members, as well as those who write for PIR Center’s periodicals, provide consulting services for its projects, and those that participate in lecture courses? Then the number will be over a hundred.
PIR Center’s highest authority is its Executive Board, uniting prominent Russian political scientists, experts in international affairs, economists, and public figures. The recommendations of members of the Executive Board, their experience and expertise in the problems concerning nongovernmental sector development trends in Russia and the world provide invaluable assistance in the strategic development of the Center and make a major contribution to the identification of areas for its long-term research activities.
In its research studies, the Center receives great support from the Advisory Board. Today, Advisory Board of PIR Center brings together 85 individual and 10 corporate members – the leading Russian and international experts, governmental officials and business organizations, spokesmen for the interests of different countries, regions, continents, united by common idea – to promote a more stable, safer world. Advisory Board consists representatives of Russia, Austria, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Iran, Italy, Norway, the USA, Turkey, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, South Africa.
You can learn more about some of the members from Open Collar interviews.
PIR Center team combines knowledge, experience and youth to ensure the accomplishment of the Center’s research, educational and publishing tasks. The Center’s staff members include distinguished military experts, who for a long time have worked in Russian ministries and departments. The Center engages in its work young gifted people – students, graduates and promising scholars from various Russian regions and higher education institutions.
All this ensures high-level training and research activities carried out by the Center. PIR Center has become a school that trains competent specialists not only for itself, but also for the leading Russian and foreign research organizations working in the area of international security, nonproliferation of WMD and arms control.
Experts trained by PIR Center have worked at different times in the past and continue to do so at institutions such as Harvard University (USA), Geneva Center for Security Policy (Switzerland), Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO, Russia), Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI, Sweden), Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (Russia), Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (USA), Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia (USA), and the Center for Defense Information (USA).
