Experts

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

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 Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Independent analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Independent Expert

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University