Experts

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Italian Republic and in the Republic of San Marino

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

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

PhD in Political Science

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

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

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

Independent Analyst

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary