Experts

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Independent Expert

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

RAS Institute of Economics

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

PhD in Law, Political Scientist