Experts

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

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

PhD in Political Science

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

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

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

Independent expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Global Vice President, EastWest 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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India