Experts

Political Analyst

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

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

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

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

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

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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 Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

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

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