Experts

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

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

Political Scientist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Independent expert

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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