Experts

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Independent journalist

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Academic librarian at the University of East London

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

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