Experts

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

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

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

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

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Independent Expert

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Political observer

MA in Middle Eastern Studies

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies