Experts

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

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

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

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

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

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

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

MA, MGIMO University

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany