Experts

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

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

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

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

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce