Experts

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

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

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

PhD in History, Political Studies Center of the RAS Institute of Economics

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia