Experts

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

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

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University, RIAC Expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University, RIAC expert

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

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

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Independent Expert

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

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

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation