Experts

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

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

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

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

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

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

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

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

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

PhD in Economics

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Observer, International Affairs monthly

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Independent expert

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

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