Experts

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

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

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association