Experts

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

RIAC Expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Independent Analyst

University of Birmingham

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

Political Scientist

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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