Experts

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Independent analyst

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

PhD in Law, Political Scientist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal