Experts

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

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

Political Analyst, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

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

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Former senior Australian diplomat, RIAC Expert

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 Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University