Experts

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

President, Synergia Foundation

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MGIMO University

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Political observer

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

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

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

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA