Valdai Club

On February 19-20, the Valdai Club holds, in partnership with the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Oriental Studies, its eighth Middle East conference, titled “Middle East: New Stage, Old Problems?”

1. ABOU ZEID Amal, Member of the Lebanese Parliament, Free Patriotic Movement (2014–2018)

2. ALFARAJ Abdullah, Senior Researcher of the Center for Research & Intercommunication Knowledge

3. AYDIN Mustafa, Professor at the Kadir Has University

4. BALIAN Hrair, Director of the Conflict Resolution Program, the Carter Center

5. BARTENEV Vladimir, Director of the Centre for Security and Development Studies (CSDS), School of World Politics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University; Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

6. BARZEGAR Kayhan, Director of the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies (CMESS)

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

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

9. CARNELOS Marco, Senior Consultant of the Future Group Holdings

10. ELBADRI Mohamed, Assistant Foreign Minister of Egypt for Arab Affairs

11. EYL-MAZZEGA Marc-Antoine, Director of Ifri’s Centre for Energy

12. FAHMY Nabil, Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo; Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt  (2013 – 2014)
    

13. GRIGORYEV Leonid, Chief Advisor to the Head of the Analytical Centre under the Russian Federation Government; Head of the School of World Economy, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

14. IHSAN Mohammed, President at the Erbil International University

15. KHODYNSKAYA-GOLENISCHEVA Maria, Senior Advisor, Department of Strategic Planning  Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

16. KUZNETSOV Vasily, Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University

17. LEVY Daniel, President of the U.S./Middle East Project

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

19. MALLEY Robert, President & CEO of the International Crisis Group

20. MOSTAFA Abdulkarim Hashim, Chief of Staff and Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq
    

21. NAUMKIN Vitaly, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

22. ROSEN Nir, Syria and Iraq advisor at the Humanitarian Dialogue Centre

23. SAJJADPOUR Seyed Kazem, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran; President of the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)

24. SHAABAN Bouthaina, Minister, Political and Media Advisor, Syrian Presidency

25. SHAATH Nabeel, Advisor to President of State of Palestine