Experts

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

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

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

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

MGIMO University

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

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

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl