First Defense and Security Section Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. Participants
Moscow
Programme

The inaugural session of the Defense and Security Section of the Valdai International Discussion Club titled “Modernization of Russia’s Armed Forces and Cooperation in International Security” is to be held in Moscow on May 25-27, 2011.

PARTICIPANTS

Alexander ALESIN / Belarus 
Department Head of the Editorial Board of Belorusy i Rynok (Belarusians and the Market) 

Pavel ANDREEV / Russia 
Head of International Projects, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti”, Executive Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, Member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) 

Oksana ANTONENKO / UK 
Senior Fellow and Programme Director for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London 

Yves BOYER / France 
Deputy Director of the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Professor at the Ėcole polytechnique 

Tor BUKKVOLL / Norway 
Head of the Russia Project, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment 

Mesut Hakkı CAŞIN / Turkey 
Professor, Yeditepe University International Relations Department 

Roger N. McDERMOTT / UK 
Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC; Senior International Fellow, Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth 

Dmitry P. GORENBURG / USA 
Senior Analyst and Director of Russian and East European Programs, CNA Corporation; Editor, Russian Politics and Law; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies 

Arnaud KALIKA / France 
Chief Editor, Confidential Newsletter Strategic Information TTU, specializing in issues geopolitics and military industries; lecturer, department for the study of organized crime, University of Paris II 

Sergei KARAGANOV / Russia 
Dean, Department, World Economy and World Politics, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Chairman, Presidium, Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (since 1994), Chairman, editorial board of Russia in Global Affairs magazine 

Viktor LITOVKIN / Russia 
Executive Editor, Independent Military Review, Colonel (ret.) 

Konstantin MAKIENKO / Russia 
Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), Member of the expert council under the Russian State Duma defense committee 

Jeffrey MANKOFF / USA 
International Affairs Fellow, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Associate Director, International Security Studies, Yale University, Adjunct Fellow for Russia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations 

Josef NIEBECKER / Germany 
Defence Attaché at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow 

Alexei NIKOLSKY / Russia 
Correspondent for the political department, Vedomosti newspaper 

Ruslan PUKHOV / Russia 
Director of the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST); Member of the Public Council under the Russian Defense Ministry 

Alexander SHARAVIN / Russia 
Director, Institute for political and military analysis; Doctor of engineering sciences, professor; Colonel; Member of Academy of military sciences of Russian Federation 

Toshihiko SHIOBARA /Japan 
Professor of Kochi University, Japan, PhD 

Vitaly SHLYKOV / Russia 
Member of the Public Council of the Russian Defense Ministry; Professor of the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”; Colonel (ret.); Ph.D. in economics. Defended a thesis on NATO and joint arms production 

Bertrand SLASKI / France 
Senior consultant - Aerospace & Defense, Department of Defense & Security issues, CEIS, a French business research & consulting firm 

Robert SMIGIELSKI / Poland 
Analyst in the Polish Institute of International Affairs (Programme International Security) 

Alexander STUKALIN / Russia 
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Kommersant Daily 

Richard WEITZ / USA 
Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at Hudson Institute, non-resident Senior Advisor at the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR), non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) 

Sergei ZVEREV / Russia
President of CROS Public Relations & Public Affairs Company