Valdai Club

Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University;

Desmond Browne, former British Defense Minister;

Sir Roderick Lyne, former British Ambassador to the Russian Federation.

Participants:

Roy Allison, Professor, Director of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Oxford;

Othon Anastasakis, Senior Research Fellow, Director, St Antony’s South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), Former Director, European Studies Centre;

John Beyrle, US Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2008-2011).

Cosima Glahn, Researcher, Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin;

Thomas Graham, Vice President and Managing Director of Kissinger Associates, professor at Yale University;

Timothy Colton, Chair of the Government Department at Harvard University;

Lukasz Kulesa, Research Director of the European Leadership Network;

Kimberly Marten, Director of the Program on U.S.-Russia Relations at Columbia's Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies;

Patricia Nicholas, Program Officer, Carnegie Corporation of New York;

Julie Newton, Research Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford University; Executive Director, Universities Consortium ;

Hanna Smith, Research Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki;

Malcolm Spencer, Programme Coordinator, University Consortium;

Sabine Fischer, Head of Eastern Europe and Eurasia division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP); Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin;

Moderator:

Dmitry Suslov, Programme Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club