Experts

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

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

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

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

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

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University, RIAC Expert

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

RIAC Expert

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