Experts

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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 in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

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

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Independent expert

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory