Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , 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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

RIAC Expert

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

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus, RIAC Expert

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

RIAC Expert

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council