Experts

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

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

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

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

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Institute of Oriental Studies

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Independent Analyst

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

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

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Political Analyst

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization