Experts

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Humanitarian Affairs Adviser, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

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

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, NatStrat, India

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

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

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

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

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

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge