Experts

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Doctor of Economics, Head of the Center for Strategic Analysis and Planning, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

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

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

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University