Experts

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

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

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

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

PhD in Political Science

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

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

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

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

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA