Experts

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

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

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in political science

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

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

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

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 History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Ph.D. researcher, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

PhD in Political Science