Experts

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

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

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

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

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

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

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

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

Political Analyst

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

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

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

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