Experts

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Independent Analyst

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor