AKSENYONOK Alexander, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation; Vice-President, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
ALAGELI Abdul Rahman, Associate Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House; Security Advisor at the office of the Libyan Prime Minister (2012-2014)
ALQAWASMI Sahar, Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)
AYDIN Mustafa, Rector, Kadir Has University (Istanbul)
BALIAN Hrair, Director, Conflict Resolution Program, The Carter Center
BARZEGAR Kayhan, Kayhan BARZEGAR, Director, Center for Middle East Strategic Studies (Tehran)
BECHARI Mohamed, Secretary General of the Islamic European Conference (IEC)
BOGDANOV Mikhail, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
BYSTRITSKIY Andrey, Chairman of the Board, Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
DARKAZALLY Anwar, Director of Political Affairs, United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)
DENGOV Lev, Head of the Russian Contact Group for intra-Libyan Settlement
DERGHAM Raghida, Founder and Executive Chairman, Beirut Institute
GOLD Dore, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel (2015–2016); Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN (1997–1999)
ELBADRI Mohamed, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt
FAHMY Nabil, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt (2013-2014); Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, American University in Cairo
GRANDJEAN Romain, Director, Near East and North Africa, Center for Humanitarian Dialogue
HAGGAG Karim, Professor of Practice, The American University in Cairo
HAWRAMI Hemin, Member of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Leadership Council, Senior Assistant to President Massoud Barzani
HILTERMANN Joost, Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group
JONES Deborah K., US Ambassador to Kuwait (2008-2011) and to Libya (2013-2015)
KARAGANOV Sergey, Dean of the School of World Economics and International Relations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy
KORTUNOV Andrey, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
KUZNETSOV Vasily, Head of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
LAVROV Sergey, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
LEVY Daniel, President, U.S. / Middle East Project
LUKYANOV Fyodor, Research Director of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
NASER MOHAMED Ali, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (1980–1986)
NAUMKIN Vitaly, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
OZEROV Oleg, Deputy Director of the Department of Africa of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2010–2017)
OZHAN Taha, Member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey
RAMZY Ramzy E., Deputy Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria
ROSEN Nir, Syria and Iraq advisor, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
SAJJADPOUR Seyed Mohammad Kazem, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran; President, Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)
SHAABAN Bouthaina, Advisor to the President of the Syrian Arab Republic
WRIGHT Robin, Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace; Distinguished Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Contributing Writer, The New Yorker magazine
YADLIN Amos, Major General (ret.), Executive Director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
ZAKI Hossam, Assistant Secretary General of the League of Arab States
ZARIF Mohammad Javad, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran
ZVYAGELSKAYA Irina, Chief Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences