Experts

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

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Independent journalist and researcher

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

PhD in Economics

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer at MGIMO University; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, RIAC Expert

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Political observer

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Expert at the Middle East Institute, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University