Experts

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus, RIAC Expert