Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

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

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

Independent expert

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

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh