Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

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

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Expert at the Middle East Institute

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

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

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

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

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

PhD (History), Leading Researcher, Head, Center for Tropical Africa Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Political observer

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University