Experts

University of Birmingham

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

RIAC Expert

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

Ph.D. in History, Associate professor, Department of Diplomacy, Vice-Rector for HR Policy, MGIMO University

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Independent expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Political Scientist

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Independent Analyst

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

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

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

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, RIAC Expert

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung