Experts

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Expert at the Laboratory of Asia-Pacific International Institutions and Multilateral Cooperation, Far Eastern State University School of Regional and International Studies, Сorrespondent of the Regional News Agency Data

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

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

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

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

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert