Experts

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

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

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

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

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

MA, MGIMO University

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Political observer

MA in Middle Eastern Studies