Experts

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Independent Analyst

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

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

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

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

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

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

Political Scientist

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

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

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Independent journalist

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University