Experts

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Ph.D. in History

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

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 candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

RIAC Member

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Expert on Development Assistace

PhD in History, independent journalist

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)