Experts

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

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

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Independent Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

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

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

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

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

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Political observer

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

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

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

MA in Middle Eastern Studies

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

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

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)

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

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

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