Experts

Political Analyst

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

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

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

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

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

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

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

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