Experts

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

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

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

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

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Journalist, Sinologist

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

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

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