Experts

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

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

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

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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