Experts

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Independent Analyst

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

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

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform