Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

RIAC Member

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

Retired Vice-admiral, RIAC expert

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

RIAC Expert, Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD of Political Science, Research Fellow at Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU, RIAC expert

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

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

INSOR Director for International Development

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert

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

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran