Experts

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Editor in chief, PIRC

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

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

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

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member