Experts

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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 Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, 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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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