Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Independent Analyst

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 researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Independent expert

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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