Experts

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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 Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

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 Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

University of Birmingham

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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