Experts

Independent Analyst

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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

Independent expert

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

RIAC Expert

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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