Experts

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

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

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand