Experts

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

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

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

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

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

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

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President