Experts

PhD in Political Science

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Independent Expert

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Independent journalist

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO 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 of Political Science, Research Fellow at Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs