Experts

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies, RIAC expert

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America, RAS Corresponding Member

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy, RIAC expert

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

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

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS, RIAC Expert

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Leading analyst, Center for Energy and Digital Economy Stretegic Research, MGIMO University. Founder, President of Honour, MGIMO Arctic Student Research Club

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata, RIAC expert

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

Independent journalist

Former senior Australian diplomat, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Independent Analyst