Experts

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

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

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

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

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations