Experts

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

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

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

PhD in History, independent journalist

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

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

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

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

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

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

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

RIAC Member

Russian International Affairs Council Expert, Member of Space Generation Advisory Council

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

President, Synergia Foundation

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

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