Experts

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS), RIAC expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert, RIAC Expert

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

MGIMO University

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary