Experts

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (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

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

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

Political Scientist

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent