Experts

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

PhD in Political Science

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries