Experts

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

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

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

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

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University