Experts

Independent Analyst

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform