Experts

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

MGIMO University

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

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

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

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

RIAC Expert

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

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