Experts

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Analyst at MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

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

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal 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 History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO 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

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate.