Experts

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Retired Vice-admiral

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

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

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

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

Vice President of the Schiller Institute USA, National Spokesman for Lyndon LaRouche

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development