Experts

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

RIAC Expert

Political Scientist

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

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

RIAC Expert

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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