Experts

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Acting Director of Programs

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

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

MGIMO-University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs