Experts

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

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University