Experts

MGIMO-University

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

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography