Experts

Independent journalist

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

PhD in history

Institute of Oriental Studies

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

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

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Head of the Research Center of International Relations, RAS Institute of Sociology

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Corresponding member, RAS, Dr. of Economics, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty for International Energy Business, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

RIAC Publishing Editor

Master Student at MGIMO-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

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE