Experts

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Political Analyst

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

Independent Analyst

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

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

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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