Experts

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Independent Expert

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

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

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

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, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Political Analyst

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

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