Experts

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

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

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

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

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

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation