Experts

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

PhD., HSE Professor

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

Ph.D., senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Assistant Professor, MGIMO

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies, RIAC expert

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Political observer

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), RIAC Expert

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Associate fellow with the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

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