Experts

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)

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

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

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

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

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

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

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

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

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

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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, MGIMO Professor

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

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club