Experts

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

RIAC Expert

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at SIPRI, RIAC Expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub), RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant; RIAC expert

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

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

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

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

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies