Experts

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Political Analyst

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

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

MGIMO University