Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Expert in the Foreign Policy and Security division at the Center for Strategic Research

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in history

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Dr. of History, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Latin America journal, RIAC Member

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.