Experts

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Independent journalist

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the 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

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

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

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Head of the Joint Department with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the HSE University, RIAC member

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Political Analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Journalist, Sinologist