Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

PhD in Political Science

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

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

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