Experts

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Observer, International Affairs monthly

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

PhD in History, Political Studies Center of the RAS Institute of Economics

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting