Experts

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Independent journalist and researcher

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

RIAC member

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

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

RIAC Member

Independent Expert