Experts

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Political observer

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Former senior Australian diplomat

PIR Center Director

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

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. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences