Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Independent Analyst

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

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

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Ph.D. (History), Professor, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Institute of Oriental Studies

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Ph.D in Economics, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Europe, Head of the Country and Regional Researches Department, Head of the German Research Center

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

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

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney