Experts

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Political Science

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

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

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

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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