Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

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

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Political observer

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning