Experts

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

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

University of Birmingham

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Political Scientist

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine, RIAC Expert

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

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