Experts

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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 Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Ph.D., RIAC Acting Director of Programs

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

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

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

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