Experts

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

RIAC Expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Independent expert

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

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