Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

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

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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