Experts

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

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 History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg 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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

University of Birmingham

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Independent expert

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

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