Experts

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

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

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

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

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

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

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

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

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

MGIMO University

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

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

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

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

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

Political Analyst