Experts

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

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

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

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

MGIMO University

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

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

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

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

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Political Analyst

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

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

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics