Experts

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

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)

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

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

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

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

INSOR Director for International Development

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies