Experts

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University, RIAC Expert

University of Birmingham

RIAC Expert

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

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

MA in Middle Eastern Studies, RIAC Expert

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies, RIAC expert

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative, RIAC Expert

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

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

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist, RIAC expert

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

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate, RIAC expert.

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

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

Journalist, Sinologist

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Independent Analyst