Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PIR Center Director

PhD in Political Science, Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

MA in Middle Eastern Studies, RIAC Expert

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

INSOR Director for International Development

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

RIAC member

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

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

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University, RIAC expert

Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs' Rights

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

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

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member