Experts

Independent Expert

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

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

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

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

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

HSE University Student

Master’s Student, MGIMO University, RIAC Intern

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

RF state counselor, 1st class, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University