Experts

Independent expert

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

Political Scientist

Independent Analyst

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh