Experts

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Journalist, Sinologist

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Independent journalist

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Independent Expert

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

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

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University