Experts

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

Political Scientist

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

RIAC Expert

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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, RIAC Expert

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

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

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

RIAC Expert