Experts

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

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

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Institute of Oriental Studies

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics