Experts

MGIMO University

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

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

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

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of 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

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

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