Experts

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

MGIMO University

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, RIAC member

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

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

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

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

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

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

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

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

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

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor