Experts

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Research Fellow

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

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

Doctor of pedagogical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Academy of Education, RIAC member

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University; Non-resident Scholar, Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative