Experts

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

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

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, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

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

Political Scientist

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

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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