Experts

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

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

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

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

PIR Center Director

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies