Experts

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Ph.D. in History, Head of Section for New Challenges in South and Southeast Asia at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS)

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

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

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Independent Analyst

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, 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

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages