Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

RIAC Expert

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental 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

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

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

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Independent expert

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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