Experts

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Independent Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics