Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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)

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

University of Birmingham

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

RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America