Experts

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

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

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

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Independent Analyst

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

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

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Political Analyst

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member