Experts

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

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

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

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

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

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Independent expert

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

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

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University