Experts

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

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

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in History

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Representative, Resource Agribusiness Group

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Independent journalist

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)