Experts

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Academic librarian at the University of East London

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

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

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

RIAC Expert

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

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

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

Member of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on International Affairs

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece