Experts

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

MGIMO University

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Political Analyst

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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