Experts

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

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

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Institute of Oriental Studies

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Independent Analyst

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

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

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

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

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

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