Experts

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

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

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

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Independent Analyst

MGIMO University

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

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

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

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University