Experts

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

RIAC Expert

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

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

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, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, 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