Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

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

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

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

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Ph.D, researcher Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in political science

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

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

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

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations