Experts

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

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

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Expert in the Foreign Policy and Security division at the Center for Strategic Research

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

RIAC member

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University

MGIMO University

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Independent journalist

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University