Experts

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus, RIAC Expert

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent expert

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.