Experts

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Doctor of Political Science, Director, Head of the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America, RIAC Expert

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

RIAC member

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Expert

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

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

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University, RIAC expert

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)