Experts

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

MGIMO University

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

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

President, Synergia Foundation

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

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

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

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

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

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

Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, RIAC Member

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University