Experts

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

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD in political science, RIAC expert

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

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

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

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

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

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

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

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)

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Doctor of pedagogical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Academy of Education, RIAC member