Experts

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

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

MGIMO University

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

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

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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 at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

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

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

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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