Experts

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

INSOR Director for International Development

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

RIAC Expert

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

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

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

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

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

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)