Experts

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

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

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

RAS Institute of Economics

Research Fellow

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation (RF) to the United States of America, RIAC Member.

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

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

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member