Experts

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

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

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

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

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

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

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

Ph.D. in History

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Ph.D. in History, Head of Section for New Challenges in South and Southeast Asia at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS)