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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Political Scientist

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute