Experts

University of Birmingham

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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 Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

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

Independent expert

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent