Experts

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

MGIMO University

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

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

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies