Experts

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Political Scientist

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

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

Independent expert

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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