Experts

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

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PIR Center Director

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies