Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Independent expert

PhD in Political Science

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent