Experts

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Independent expert

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

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

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

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Political Scientist

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

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

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences