Experts

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 World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Independent expert

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest 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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association