Experts

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

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

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

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

PhD in Political Science

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Dr. of History, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Latin America journal, RIAC Member

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics