Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

University of Birmingham

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, 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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland