Experts

RIAC Expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies, RIAC Expert

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

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

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

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Member of the Committee on defense and security of The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC member.

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

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Independent Analyst

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Political Analyst, RIAC Expert

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council