Experts

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

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

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

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

University of Birmingham

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD in History, Expert on Latin America expert

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

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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