Experts

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

MGIMO University

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

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

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

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

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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