Experts

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Political Scientist

Retired Vice-admiral, RIAC expert

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

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

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Independent journalist, RIAC expert

RIAC Member

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert

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

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

Ph.D. in History, Associate professor, Department of Diplomacy, Vice-Rector for HR Policy, MGIMO University

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General, RIAC expert

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus