Experts

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Political Scientist

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

Independent expert

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member