Experts

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

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

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

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Independent journalist and researcher

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

PhD in history

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Independent Expert

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member