Experts

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

MGIMO University

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

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

Political Analyst

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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