Experts

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

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

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

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Acting Director of Programs

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

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

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

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

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

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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