Experts

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

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

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

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

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation