Experts

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

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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