Experts

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

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, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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)

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

MA, MGIMO 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

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Independent Analyst