Experts

University of Birmingham

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung