Experts

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

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

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

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

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

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

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

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

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

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