Experts

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Independent Analyst

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

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

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

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

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

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 Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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