Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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, 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 in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Political Scientist

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

RIAC Expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert