Experts

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

MGIMO University

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

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 Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist, RIAC expert

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University, RIAC expert

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies, RIAC expert

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences