Experts

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

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, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Independent Analyst

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues