Experts

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

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

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

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

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

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Institute of Oriental Studies

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. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Independent Analyst

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

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

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member