Experts

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

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

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

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

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member