Experts

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

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

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

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

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Retired Vice-admiral, RIAC expert

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies, RIAC Expert

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

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Markets, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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, RIAC Expert

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Analyst at CNA Corporation

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University