Experts

University of Birmingham

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Independent expert

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

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

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 Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

RIAC Expert

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

Political Scientist

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program