Experts

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Political Analyst

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

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

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

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

MGIMO University

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

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

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

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

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

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

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