Experts

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

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Editor in chief, PIRC

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

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

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

PhD in History, Expert of ASEAN Center at MGIMO University under Russia’s Foreign Ministry

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

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

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Junior Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

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

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus