Experts

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

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

Independent expert

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

RIAC Expert