Experts

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

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

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

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Political Analyst

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

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

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

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

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

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

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

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

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

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

Independent Analyst

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 Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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