Experts

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

MGIMO University

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

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

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Independent journalist

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

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

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

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