Experts

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

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

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Academic Secretary at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna