Experts

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

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

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Independent Analyst

Political Scientist

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

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

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

PhD in Political Science

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Independent expert

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Ph.D. in Economics, 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

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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