Experts

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

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

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Institute of Oriental Studies

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

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

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

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

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

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform