Experts

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, World Politics Department MGIMO-University

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America, RAS Corresponding Member

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

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

PIR Center Director

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD fellow at the Chair of International Law, PFUR Law School

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University