Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD in History, Expert on Latin America expert, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PIR Center Director

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

MA in Middle Eastern Studies, RIAC Expert

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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