Experts

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Political Scientist

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

Independent expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

RIAC Expert

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

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

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