Experts

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

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Associate fellow with the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Corresponding member, RAS, Dr. of Economics, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty for International Energy Business, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

President of Russian State University for the Humanities, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

PhD in political science, RIAC expert

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member