Experts

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

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

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

MGIMO University

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

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

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

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