Experts

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

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

Political Analyst

Independent Analyst

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

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

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

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

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

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

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

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

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

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