Experts

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

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

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

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

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

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

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

MGIMO-University

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in Economics

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy