Experts

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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 Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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