Experts

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

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

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Independent Analyst

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning