Experts

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in History, Expert of ASEAN Center at MGIMO University under Russia’s Foreign Ministry

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

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

HSE University Student

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Researcher at the Department for the Study of Israel and Jewish Communities of the RAS

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, RIAC Member

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine