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

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

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

Political Analyst

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

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

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

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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 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 Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation