Experts

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

University of Birmingham

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

RIAC Expert

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine, RIAC Expert

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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 History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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