Experts

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in History, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Science

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

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

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

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Political Analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

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

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State 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, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

PhD (History), Leading Researcher, Head, Center for Tropical Africa Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist