Experts

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies, RIAC Expert

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Researcher at the Department for the Study of Israel and Jewish Communities of the RAS

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative, RIAC Expert

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Expert on Development Assistace

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

A violent end to the Libyan crisis also seems unlikely in the near term, as the forces in the country’s east will have trouble organizing an effective attack on Tripoli without the support of Russia, whose military has other things in sight

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