Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Independent Analyst

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU, RIAC Expert

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

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

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

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Research Fellow

PhD in History, Senior research fellow, The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

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, RIAC Expert