Experts

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

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

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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

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, RIAC Member

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

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

Political Analyst

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

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

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

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

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

MGIMO University

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

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

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

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies