Experts

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Independent expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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 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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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