Experts

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Independent Analyst

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

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