Experts

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

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

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

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

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

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

Independent Analyst

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

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. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

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, RIAC Member

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

MGIMO University

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

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