Experts

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

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

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

MGIMO University

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial 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

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

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 Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

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., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

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

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

Political Analyst

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

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