Experts

Independent expert

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

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Independent Analyst

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

University of Birmingham

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Political Scientist

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh