Experts

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

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 law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

PIR Center Director

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

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

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh