Experts

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

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 Technical Sciences, retired Major General

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

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

PhD in Political Science

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Leading analyst, Center for Energy and Digital Economy Stretegic Research, MGIMO University. Founder, President of Honour, MGIMO Arctic Student Research Club

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

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Independent expert

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America