Experts

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, at the Department of International Relations, Goa University

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in Political Science, Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

MGIMO-University

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies