Experts

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

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

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies