Experts

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Political Analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

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

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

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

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

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

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Independent Analyst

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

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, 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., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

MGIMO University

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation