Experts

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Political Analyst

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

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

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney