Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

Former senior Australian diplomat

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Independent journalist

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

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

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

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

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

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

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg 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

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Master Student at MGIMO-University

Analyst, IDIP RFTA