Experts

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

MGIMO University

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

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

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

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

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

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

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

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

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

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

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