Experts

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

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

Independent Analyst

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council