Experts

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Independent expert

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

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

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

Political Scientist

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

University of Birmingham

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

RIAC Expert

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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, RIAC member