Experts

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Independent expert

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Independent Analyst

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

PhD in Political Science

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy