Experts

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

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

MGIMO University

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

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

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

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

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

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

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

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

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center