Experts

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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, RIAC Member

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

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

Mexico's Ambassador to 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

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

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

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

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