Experts

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

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

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

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD in History, independent journalist

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC