Experts

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

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

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

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

Political Analyst

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

MGIMO University

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

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

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

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

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

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl