Valdai Club

Agah Yonov Frederick, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Akimov Maxim, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Alikhanov Anton, Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast

Aydin Mustafa, Professor, Kadir Has University (Istanbul)

Bazhanov Leonid, Professor, Faculty of Communications, Media, and Design, Art and Design School, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Bezrukov Andrey, Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Blinkin Mikhail, Director, Institute for Transport Economics and Transport Policy Studies; Acting Dean, Professor Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism

Bogomolov Konstantin, Director, Lenkom Theatre (Moscow State Theatre named after Lenin's Komsomol)

Bordachev Timofey, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Director, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Bystritskiy Andrey, Chairman of the Board, Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Damdin Tsogtbaatar, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Mongolia

Dougherty Jill, CNN Correspondent

Dutkiewicz Piotr, Director and Professor, Centre for Governance and Public Management, Carleton University, Ottawa

Federmesser Nyuta, Director of the Moscow Center for Palliative Care Founder at VERA

Flemming Rose, Writer and Journalist

Fomin Alexander, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, Colonel General

Frolov Andrey, Editor-in-chief of the “Arms export” magazine.

Fu Ying, Vice Chairperson, The National People's Congress, Foreign Affairs Committee

Gavrilenkov Evgeny, Professor at Higher School of Economics

Gergiev Valery, Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre

Gomart Thomas, Director, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Guéhenno Jean-Marie, United Nations' Under-Secretary-General (2000-2008)

Gupta Arvind, Director, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF)

Karaganov Sergey, Dean of the School of World Economics and International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy

Karzai Hamid, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2004-2014)

Kasprzhak Alexey, Director, Artek International Children’s Center

Klyuyev Ilya, President of the Cluev Jewellery House

Kortunov Andrey, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

Kozlov Alexander, Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East

Krastev Ivan, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies

Kuznetsov Stanislav, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank

Lavrov Sergey, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Lukyanov Fyodor, Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Maçães Bruno, Secretary of the State for European Affairs in Portugal (2013-2015)

Medinsky Vladimir, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation

Mohan C. Raja, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS)

Mohd Isa Tan Sri Rastam, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia

Monaghan Andrew, Director of Research on Russia and Northern European Defence and Security at the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre at Pembroke College

Moussa Amre, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States (2001-2011); Foreign Minister of Egypt (1991-2001)

Naumkin Vitaly, Academic Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Oriental Studies, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Nikonov Vyacheslav, Chairman, Committee on Education and Science at the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; President of the Fund "Politics"

Oleskina Elizaveta, Director of the Charity Fund for Assistance in Ageing and People with Disabilities “Starost v Radost”

Oreshkin Maxim, Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Orlov Alexander, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the French Republic (2008-2017), Executive Secretary of the Russian-French Forum Trianon Dialogue

Piotrovsky Mikhail, Director, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Sajjadpour Seyed Kazem, President, Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)

Sargsyan Tigran, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission

Sirota Oleg, Head of the Union of Russian Cheese Makers, Farmer-Cheese Maker

Solzhenitsyna Natalia, Public Figure

Stoychev Kancho, President of Gallup International Association

Tikhon, Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, Chairman of the Patriarch's Council for Culture

Titov Boris, Presidential Commissioner for Entrepreneurs’ Rights

Vasiliev Yuri, Special Correspondent, “vz.ru”

Vasilyeva Olga, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation

Vodolazkin Evgeny, Writer, Leading Researcher, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences

Weitz Richard, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Political-Military Analysis, Hudson Institute

Wohlforth William, Daniel Webster Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College

Xu Sitao, Chief Economist, Partner, Deloitte (China)

Yang Jiechi, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist party of China and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of CPC Central Committee 

Zanussi Krzysztof, Film director, President of Tor Film Production

Zerbo Lassina, Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)