Experts

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Former senior Australian diplomat

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Ph.D, researcher Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Independent journalist

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert

Master Student at MGIMO-University

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

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

Analyst at CNA Corporation

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

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

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation