Experts

RIAC Expert

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Political Scientist

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Independent Analyst

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, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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