Experts

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

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

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

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

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

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

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

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