Experts

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

RIAC Expert

Independent expert

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council