Experts

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Independent Analyst

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Academic librarian at the University of East London

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member