Experts

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

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

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation