Experts

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

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 to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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