Experts

Independent Expert

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Ph.D. in History

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

President, Synergia Foundation

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

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

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences