Experts

Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Independent expert

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Political observer

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

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

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

President, Synergia Foundation

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

Former senior Australian diplomat

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

Political Analyst