Experts

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

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Retired Vice-admiral

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

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

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

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

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

MGIMO University

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

MGIMO-University

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member