Experts

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Doctor of Economy, Professor, Professor, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates

Expert on Development Assistace

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General, 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

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Sciences in History, Rector, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Independent Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS), RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

President of Russian State University for the Humanities, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium