Experts

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Independent expert

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

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

Political Scientist

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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 Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

RIAC Expert

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

RIAC Expert

University of Birmingham

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

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

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