Experts

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

MA, MGIMO University

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Journalist, Sinologist

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

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

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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 Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

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

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

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

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

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

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General