Experts

Independent Analyst

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

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

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

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

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Political Analyst

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

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

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

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