Experts

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, RIAC member

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

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

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member