Experts

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

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Institute of Oriental Studies

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Retired Vice-admiral

President, Synergia Foundation

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin