Experts

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

Expert on Development Assistace

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

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

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

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

PIR Center Director

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member

Independent expert

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

PhD in political science

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

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project