Experts

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

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal 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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Expert on Development Assistace

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

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

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland