Experts

Independent journalist and researcher

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Italian Republic and in the Republic of San Marino

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus, RIAC Expert

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Doctor of Science, Deputy Vice Rector, Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Senior Researcher, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

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

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

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Ph.D., senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Assistant Professor, MGIMO

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

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

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

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand