Experts

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

MGIMO University

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

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

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

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

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

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

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

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

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

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

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

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

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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