Experts

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero), RIAC expert

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

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

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations, RIAC expert