Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

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

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

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

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

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

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, at the Department of International Relations, Goa University

PhD in political science

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

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

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

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