Experts

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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)

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

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

Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of International Law, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

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.

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member

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

Post-graduate student in the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics, Economy, Security international educational program at the Far Eastern State University

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University