Experts

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , 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

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

Independent expert

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO 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 diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent