Experts

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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