Experts

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Italian Republic and in the Republic of San Marino

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

Independent Analyst

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

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

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

MA, MGIMO University

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Ph.D., RIAC Acting Director of Programs