Experts

Independent journalist

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

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

President, Synergia Foundation

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

Independent Analyst

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg 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

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

Research fellow at Insitute of Latin Anerica of RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

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

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent