Experts

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)

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

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

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

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

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

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

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

MA in Middle Eastern Studies

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

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

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

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

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 Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Independent Expert

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

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

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

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