Experts

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, 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

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

Former senior Australian diplomat, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC expert

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

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

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 in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University