ABIRU Taisuke, Senior Representative, Representative Office in Moscow, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
BAEK Jun-kee, President, Korea Consensus Institute (KCI)
BORDACHEV Timofey, Programme Director, Valdai Club Foundation; Director, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Director of Studies, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
BYSTRITSKIY Andrey, Chairman of the Board, Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
CHO Hyun, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
FENG Shaolei, Director of Centre for Co-development with Neighboring Countries, Director of Center for Russian Studies, East China Normal University
HAN Hongyul, Professor, Dept. of Economics, Hanyang University
HYUN Jung Taik, President, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
KASHIN Vasily, Senior research fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics; Leading research fellow at the Institute of the Russian Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences
KIM Seok-Hwan, Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; President, Korea Institute for Eurasian Studies
LANKOV Andrei, Professor, Kookmin University; Director, Korea Risk Group
LARIN Victor, Director, Institute of history, archaeology and ethnography of the peoples of the far-east, far- eastern branch of the RAS (IHAE FEBRAS)
LEE Il Houng, Member of Monetary Policy Board, The Bank of Korea; Former President of Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
LEE Jae-Seung, Professor, Associate Dean of GSIS, Korea University
LEE Jae-Young, Vice President, Department of Europe, Americas and Eurasia, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
LUZYANIN Sergei, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Institute’s Center for Strategic Issues of Northeast Asia
MOON Chung-in, Distinguished University Professor, Yonsei University; President's Special Adviser on Unification, Foreign Affairs and National Security
MOON Heungho, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Hanyang University
MORGULOV Igor, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation
PEDROSA Eduardo, Secretary General, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council
SONG Young-gil, Chairperson, The Presidential Committee on Northern Economic Cooperation
SUMSKY Viktor, Director of the ASEAN Center at MGIMO University
TOLORAYA Georgy, Executive Director of the Russian National Committee on BRICS Research; Director of the Center for Asian Strategy at the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences
UNNIKRISHNAN Nandan, Vice President and Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
VOLIN Alexei, Deputy Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
XIANG Lanxin, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva; Director, Centre of One Belt and One Road Studies
YAMAZOE Hiroshi, Senior Research Fellow, Regional Studies Department, National institute for Defence Studies, Japan