Valdai Club

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

BOGDANOV Mikhail, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

NAUMKIN Vitaly, President, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

BOGDANOV Mikhail, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

FAHMY Nabil, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (2013–2014)

OULD CHEIKH AHMED Ismail, Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for Yemen

SHAABAN Bouthaina, Adviser to the President of Syria

YAKIŞ Yaşar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (2002–2003) 

TORKUNOV Anatoly, Rector of MGIMO-University

BAHOUT Joseph, Visiting scholar, Middle East Program Department, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

BARGHOUTHI Mustafa, General Secretary, Palestine National Initiative

IVANOV Igor, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (1998–2004), President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

KOSACHEV Konstantin, Chairperson of the Council of the Federation Committee on Foreign Affairs

MARANDI Seyed Mohammad, Associate Professor of Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran

ZVYAGELSKAYA Irina, Chief Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

BROM Shlomo, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

CROOKE  Alastair, Director of Conflicts Forum, former Middle East security adviser to the EU

OULD MOHAMEDOU Mohammad-Mahmoud, Deputy Director and Academic Dean, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva

SAUNDERS Paul, Executive Director, Center for the National Interest

DYNKIN Alexander, Director, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

AL-DARDARI Abdallah, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria (2005–2011), Deputy Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

AL HASSAN Naufel, Deputy Chief of Staff for the Prime Minister’s Office of Iraq

POPOV Vladimir, Professor in the Graduate School of International Business at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow

REDISSI Hamadi, Professor of political science at the Tunis University

BORDACHEV Timofey, Eurasia Programme Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

KARAGANOV Sergey, Dean, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics (HSE), Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy

GATSALOV Khadjimurat, Mufti of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

ASALIOGLU Arif, General Director of International Institute of the Development of Science Cooperation

FENG Shaolei, Director, Center for Russian Studies, East China Normal University

AKSENYONOK Alexander, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Member of Russian International Affairs Council

ALTERMAN Jon, Senior Vice President, Director of the Middle East Program  at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

BARZEGAR Kayhan, Director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies (IMESS) in Tehran

KUMARASWAMY P.R., Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

NAUMKIN Vitaly, President, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

WU Bingbing, Senior Research Fellow of Institute for International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University

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

BAKLANOV Andrey, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Association of Russian Diplomats

BURGAT François, Senior Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research

KURTZER Daniel, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001), to Israel (2001–2005), Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

LEVY Daniel, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme,  European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)