Experts

Journalist, Sinologist

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre 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

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

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

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

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

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, RIAC expert

RIAC Expert, Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC, RIAC Expert

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations, RIAC expert

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, RIAC expert

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD in political science, RIAC expert