Experts

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

PhD in History, Senior research fellow, The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

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

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

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

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation