Experts

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

MGIMO University

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

Independent Analyst

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

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