Experts

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Political Scientist

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

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

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