Experts

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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 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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger