Experts

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, 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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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