Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Italian Republic and in the Republic of San Marino

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Political observer

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

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University, RIAC Expert

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

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

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

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

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation