Experts

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, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

RIAC Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

RIAC Expert

Independent 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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

University of Birmingham

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

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India