Experts

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

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

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, 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

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, 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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

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

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

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

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

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

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

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

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