Experts

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

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

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

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

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

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

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

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation