Experts

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

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

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 Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

RIAC Expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Independent 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

University of Birmingham

Political Scientist

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest 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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

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