Experts

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

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Observer, International Affairs monthly

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

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

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member