Experts

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

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

RIAC 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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

University of Birmingham

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America