Experts

University of Birmingham

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

PhD in Political Science

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

Political Scientist

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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 Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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