Experts

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

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

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

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

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

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

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

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

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

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

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center