Experts

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Independent Analyst

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

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

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

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

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

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

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Political Analyst

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

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council