Experts

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Independent Expert

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

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

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

RIAC member

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow