Experts

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

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

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

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

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

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

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

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

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

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

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

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member