Experts

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Independent expert

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

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

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

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

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

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

PhD (Political Science), Leading Researcher, Head, Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

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

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of the IR Department at Kirikkale University, Türkiye

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)