Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

Independent Expert

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

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

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

RIAC Publishing Editor

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

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Acting Director of Programs

Independent journalist

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

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

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

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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