Experts

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

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

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

University of Birmingham

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Independent expert

Political Scientist

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent