Experts

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

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

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

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

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

President, Synergia Foundation

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

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

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Professor, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, RUDN