Experts

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

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

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

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

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Political Analyst

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

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

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

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