Experts

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Independent Expert

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

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

INSOR Director for International Development

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

PIR Center Director

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

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