Experts

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Independent Analyst

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

University of Birmingham

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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