Experts

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

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

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, RIAC Member

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

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

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

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

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

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University