Experts

Political Scientist

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert

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

Independent Analyst

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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 History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

University of Birmingham

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

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

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