Experts

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

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

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Political observer

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Independent Expert

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia