Experts

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

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

Independent expert

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, independent journalist

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany