Experts

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

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

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project, RIAC Expert

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

RIAC Expert

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor in the Department of World Economy and World Finance of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, RIAC expert

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

RIAC Expert

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

Independent Analyst

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London