Experts

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Independent expert

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine, RIAC Expert

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

University of Birmingham

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences