Experts

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

RIAC Expert, Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

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

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Post-graduate student in the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics, Economy, Security international educational program at the Far Eastern State University

Doctor of Economy, Professor, Professor, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of US and Canada, RAS Full Member

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

RIAC Expert

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

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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