Experts

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

RIAC Expert

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Independent Analyst

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Independent expert

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute