Experts

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

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

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

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

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

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

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

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

MGIMO University

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member