Experts

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

PhD in Political Science

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Political Scientist

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge