Experts

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Independent Expert

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

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

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 Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

MA in Middle Eastern Studies

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

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 in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

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

Political observer

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)