Experts

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Political observer

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

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

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

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

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Junior Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations