Experts

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert, RIAC Expert

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN, RIAC expert

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

RAS Institute of Economics

President, Synergia Foundation

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan), RIAC Expert

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

RIAC Expert

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Observer, International Affairs monthly

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University