Experts

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Master of Arts in International Relations (MGIMO University), Independent Analyst

RIAC member

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member