Experts

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

RIAC Member

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Doctor of History, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University, RIAC expert

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

MGIMO-University

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University