Experts

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Political Scientist

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

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

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

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow at the European Leadership Network

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Former senior Australian diplomat

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi