Experts

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

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Political observer

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Independent expert

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

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata