Experts

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

Political Analyst

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

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

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

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

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