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, RIAC member

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Independent expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

University of Birmingham

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

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 Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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