Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

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

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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