Experts

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Independent Analyst

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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