Experts

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

INSOR Director for International Development

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

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

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

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

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Expert in the Foreign Policy and Security division at the Center for Strategic Research

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Consultant, PIR Center

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

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

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation