Experts

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

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

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

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

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

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

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

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies