Experts

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

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

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

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

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member