Experts

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

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Ph.D. in History

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

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD fellow at the Chair of International Law, PFUR Law School

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University