Experts

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

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

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council

Dr. of History, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Latin America journal

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

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

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

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Independent Analyst

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

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

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

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

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent journalist and researcher

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

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

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU