Experts

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

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

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

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

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

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

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

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

MGIMO University

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

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

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

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

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl