Experts

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former senior Australian diplomat

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Director of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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 Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

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

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)