Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Expert

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

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

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council, Graduate Student at the MGIMO University

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies, RIAC expert

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University