The 16th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club will be held from September 30 until October 3 in Sochi. This year’s topic is “The Dawn of the East and the World Political Order.”
Maxim Akimov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Alexandra Arkhangelskaya, Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Mustafa Aydin, President, International Relations Council of Turkey
Andrey Baklanov, Assistant to the Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Vice-Chairman of the Association of Russian Diplomats
Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Kayhan Barzegar, Director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS) in Tehran
Timofey Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic Supervisor, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
Marc Champion, Senior Reporter for International Affairs, Bloomberg
Damdin Tsogtbaatar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia
Piotr Dutkiewicz, Director and Professor, Center for Governance and Public Policy, Carleton University
Mohamed Elbadri, Assistant Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt for Arab Affairs
Mohamed-Chérif Ferjani, Professor Emeritus, University of Lyon 2
Andrey Filatov, General Director, SAP CIS
Fu Ying, Vice-Chairperson, Foreign Affairs Committee, National People’s Congress, People’s Republic of China
Andrey Fursenko, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations (2000-2008)
William H. Hill, Global Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advance Russia Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Keio University
Sergey Karaganov, Academic Supervisor – Dean, Faculty of World Economics and International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Vasily Kashin, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Radiy Khabirov, Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan
Ulugbek Khasanov, Head, Department of International Relations, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Tigran Khudaverdyan, Deputy CEO, Yandex N.V.
Andrei Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council
Anicet Gabriel Kotchofa, Ambassador of the Republic of Benin to the Russian Federation and CIS Countries (2012 – 2016); Assistant Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies (Sofia); Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna)
Charles A. Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Vasily Kuznetsov, Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences
Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Lee Jae-Young, President, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
Vladimir Legoyda, Chairman, Department for Church Society and Mass Media Relations, Russian Orthodox Church
Anatol Lieven, Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar
Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
Bruno Maçães, Senior Advisor, Flint Global (London), Minister of European Affairs of the Portuguese Republic (2013-2015)
Igor Makarov, Head, School of World Economy, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Robert Malley, President, Chief Executive Officer, International Crisis Group
Gulnara Mammadzade, Deputy Director, Expert Council of Baku Network International Policy and Security
Prakash Menon, Lieutenant General (Retd), Director, Strategic Studies Program, Takshashila Institution
C Raja Mohan, Director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa, Chairman, Chief Executive, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Malaysia)
Vitaly Naumkin, President, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Science; Full Member, Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Askar Nursha, Dean, Public Policy and Law School, Almaty Management University
Maxim Oreshkin, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Alan Ortiz, Executive Director, Center for Philippines Futuristics
Alexander Rahr, Research Director, German-Russian Forum
Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria of the United Nation (2014 – 2019)
Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Chief Executive, South African Institute of International Affairs
Leonid Sykiainen, Professor, School of General and Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Nathalie Tocci, Director, Institute of International Affairs (IAI); Special Advisor to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission
Yevgeni Varshaver, Director, Group for Migration and Ethnicity Research, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Vladimir Vasilyev, Head of the Republic of Dagestan
Güney Yildiz, Non-Resident Scholar, Middle East Institute (Washington D.C.)
Wang Yiwei, Director, Institute of International Affairs and Centre for European Union Studies, Renmin University of China
Wong Nelson, Vice Chairman, Shanghai Centre for RimPac Strategic and International Studies
Xu Sitao Chief Economist, Partner Deloitte China
Hasan Basri Yalçın, Director of Strategic Studies, SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research
Yan Xuetong, Dean, Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University
Nathalia Zaiser, Chair of the Board/Founder, Africa Business Initiative UNION