Experts

PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Weapons Expert, Former UN inspector in Iraq, Creator of Russian chemical weapons destruction technologies

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Expert on Development Assistace

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

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

MGIMO University

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies