Experts

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

PhD in Political Science

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

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 Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

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