Experts

Retired Vice-admiral, RIAC expert

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

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

MGIMO University

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

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

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Visiting Fellow at the Applied Policy Research Institute, based in Yerevan

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

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

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University