Experts

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Independent Expert

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

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

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Research Fellow at the European Leadership Network

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation