Experts

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

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

PhD in Political Science

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

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

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

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

Ph.D. in History

Independent Expert

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran