Authors & Experts
Interviewees, columnists, authors and pundits of BRICS Business Magazine.
Senior Specialist with the World Bank, in the Capacity Development and Partnerships Unit in the Africa Region
CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and a member of the BRICS Business Council
Harvard Law School Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, Ex-Minister of Strategic Affairs of Brazil
Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva
Managing Director and Chief Economist for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Standard & Poor’s
Academic Director of Executive Education Programmes, SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management
Research Director on Energy Security at the U.S. National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
Executive Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Russia’s Sherpa in the B20
2013 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University
Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund
Former Minister of Planning of Venezuela, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development of Harvard University
President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics, former Secretary General of NATO
Member of the Executive Board and Senior Vice President of Sberbank of Russia, Deputy Head of Sberbank CIB
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology Co-Chair of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Executive Director of EY’s Center for Smart City Innovation, Chairman of i-CANADA Alliance
Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State Univercity, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Winner of the Venice Architectural Biennale’s Golden Lion Award, columnist for The Guardian
Chairman of Roubini Global Economics, Professor of Economics and International Business at the Stern School of Business, New York University
Founder of The Evian Group, an international coalition of corporate, government and opinion leaders, and Professor Emeritus of International Political Economy at IMD
independent policy advisor on strategies, author of the Nation Brands Index, winner of the 2009 Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking
Director of New Products & Solutions at Google Enterprise, Head of Google’s Cloud Global Business Unit
Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University
Head of the Public Administration Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Director of Moscow’s Centre for Post-Industrial Studies
Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, where he also teaches international affairs
Nobel laureate and William R. Berkley Professor in Economics and Business at the Stern School of Business, New York University
Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, Head of the International Laboratory for Political Demography and Macrosociological Dynamics at Moscow’s RANEPA
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management, and Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Head of Global Markets and Institutional Research, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies
Director of the Chazen Institute, and N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia Business School
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University
Head of the Social Linguistics Centre at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Professor of International Relations at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo
Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, Resident Scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
Head of EEMEA Energy Research and Head of Russian Equity Research at BofA Merrill Lynch
Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz and a member of its International Executive Committee, Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Global Development Council, previously served as CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO
Distinguished Fellow of the Fung Global Institute and a member of the UNEP Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance, former chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, adjunct professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the author of From Asian to Global Financial Crisis
Deutsche Bank’s Global Strategist, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader; author of The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline
Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, author of The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at the Christian-Albrechts— Universität zu Kiel
Head of the Digital Technologies at the SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Djibouti
Director of the Oxford Martin School, Professor of Globalization and Development at the University of Oxford
Analyst at the Institute for Emerging Markets Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Project Leader at the Institute for Emerging Markets Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Deputy Director at the Institute for Emerging Markets Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Professor of Economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada
Deputy Director of the Russian Ministry of Health’s Centre for Planning and Coordination of Scientific Research
Research Consultant at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
Head of the Economic Analysis and Research Department at the Urbanica Institute of Spatial Planning
holds a PhD and is a culture and development sociologist. He is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Support of Native Lands, and he manages the international program at Food for All/Making Change. Kleymeyer has worked in grassroots development since 1966, in organizations that include the United States Peace Corps, Harvard Medical School, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Development Gateway. He is the author of Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development
Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO)
Managing Partner at Systems & Solutions International Group (SSIG). Participant of the Open Innovations Forum
holds a PhD and is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Central Banks’ Issues with the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Co-founder and Executive Director of Groundswell International, an NGO that supports sustainable family farming and healthy local food systems in eight countries in Africa, the Americas, and Asia
Head of the Sustainability Lab at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies SKOLKOVO
Analyst at the Sustainability Lab at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies SKOLKOVO
Partner in The Naylor Group, where she provides leadership coaching to executives within the US Federal Government. She was an Assistant Director in the Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs in Washington, D.C. where she worked on national public policy legislation related to hunger, healthcare, and social service issues. She also served on the Board of Directors for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the Board of International Social Services, and the Global Priorities Campaign
is Adjunct Professor at Tongji University’s School of Design and Innovation, Sino-Finnish Centre in Shanghai. He is founder and curator of TEDxShanghai; Researcher and producer of Urban-Rural Bridge in China; and Founder and creative director of Pan-Asia Network (PAN). Richard Hsu is a past participant in the Moscow Urban Forum.
Head of research at the Russian-Chinese Economic and Financial Center of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
President and CEO of the New America Foundation, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009–2011)
Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences
Director of the Asian Markets department at the Russian-Chinese Trade Development Center
Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; is the author, most recently, of Transforming Economies: Making Industrial Policy Work for Growth, Jobs
Director of Public Affairs and Global Health Policy at the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA)
First Vice-President of the Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RASPP)
professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami, where he also served as Dean of the School of International Studies (1997–2000); a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
is President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development. He is a participant of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
an economist and banker from Bangladesh. He won the Nobel Prize for his achievements in combatting poverty
one of Russia’s best known international astrophysicists. He initiated a mega ambitious project to deploy interferometers both on Earth and in space with the super long Radioastron and Millimetron bases
American biologist, Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
a linguist, philosopher, and professor of cultural theory and Russian literature at Emory University (Atlanta, USA) and Durham University (UK). He is also Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation (Durham University). He has authored of 30 books and over 700 articles and essays, which have been translated into 19 languages overall
Professor and Head of the School of Asian Studies at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs. He is also a member of the Academic Council of the Higher School of Economics
CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, Head of the EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association, and President-Elect of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University
Analyst at Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Director for Conservation Policy, the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) Russia, Doctor of Geographical Sciences
Vice President – Head of Private Capital and Investment Management Block of Promsvyazbank
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nobel Prize in Physics winner in 2000
President and Chairman of the Academic Board at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Professor and Secretary to the Government of India at the Department of Science and Technology
Chief Executive Officer, Greek Millennium Project Node/Phemonoe Lab, Head of International Cooperation, PRAXI/FORTH
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director of the Research Centre on International Economic Relations
Research Associate, Sustainable Business Lab, Institute for Emerging Market Studies of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Cand. Sc. (Philology), Assistant Professor of Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University
Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center
Former Australian Foreign Minister, President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, Member of the Aurora Prize jury
Professor of Economics at Yale University; co-creator of the Case-Shiller Index of US house prices; 2013 Nobel Laureate in economics
President of the Institute of Liberty and Democracy; author of The Mystery of Capital
Independent policy advisor on strategies; author of the Nation Brands Index; winner of the 2009 Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking
Visiting presidential professor at City University of New York Graduate Center; former lead economist in the World Bank’s research department
President of the South North Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Studies in Morocco; president of Cultural Studies at Fez University
Former minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey; former administrator for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP); vice president at the Brookings Institution
Former director of development economics at the World Bank; non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
Research associate at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Project leader at the Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
senior adviser to the president of World Bank, co-chair of the Neurotechnology & Brain Science Future Council and a clinical associate professor of Neurology & Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington
head of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
expert at the Russian Trade and Economiс Development Council, a Ph.D. in Political Science, and a member of the Alumni Club of the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund
expert in Arab capital markets, Ph.D. in Economics, author of “Mutual investments between the Persian Gulf countries and the CIS”
professor of Population Ecology and UK Champion for Global Food Security at the University of Leeds
Professor and Head of the School of Asian Studies at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, member of the Academic Council of the Higher School of Economics
Associate professor in the Department of Social Science at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Development co-operation director at the OECD, former minister of environment and energy of Portugal
Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po and was an adviser to former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. His most recent book is Le Reflux de l’Europe
former Finance Minister of Greece, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens
Future of the World Fellow at the Center for the Governance of Change of IE University in Madrid
Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and the author of China’s Crony Capitalism
Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s International Law Research Program
Former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Professor of Economics at Cornell University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Economist for Caucasus, the CIS, Western Balkans, Switzerland & Ukraine in Coface
Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates
Начальник Управления развития экспорта департамента предпринимательства и инновационного развития города Москвы
Adjunct professor of Data and Digital Economy. He is also Head and Co-Founder of Digital India Foundation and Valdai Discussion Club expert
Dr. Philani Mthembu is executive director at the Institute for Global Dialogue. He is also a participant of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi on October 2–5
Founder of Tomorrow’s Render Team, a fashion tech specialist, XR developer, and training programme curator at the Muse Creative Professions Online University from SberEducation
President of the Indian Business Council, director of Vulkan-A textile company, India
CEO of Fashion Week Corporation, co-founder of the Macedonian Fashion Association, North Macedonia