Experts

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

PhD in Philosophy, Expert in Latin languages

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

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

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Post-graduate student in the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics, Economy, Security international educational program at the Far Eastern State University

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan