Experts

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Political Scientist

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

RIAC Expert

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

University of Birmingham

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences