Experts

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

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

PhD in Political Science, Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

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, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations