Experts

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Independent Analyst

President of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Representative, Resource Agribusiness Group

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

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

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

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

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member