Experts

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

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

Independent Analyst

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Editor-in-Chief of the Nuclear Physics and Engineering Journal, RIAC Member

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

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 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

Independent analyst

Independent Analyst