Experts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

MGIMO University

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

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

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

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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