Experts

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

University of Birmingham

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Independent expert

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

Political Scientist

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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