Experts

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

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

RIAC Expert

University of Birmingham

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

RIAC Expert

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Political Scientist

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association