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Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

University of Birmingham

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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 Political Science

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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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

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