Experts

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

University of Birmingham

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Political Scientist

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

RIAC Expert

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Independent Analyst

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences