Russia in the Middle East: Playing on All Fields. Valdai Club Conference. Speakers
InterContinental Hotel, 22 Tverskaya st., Moscow
Programme

On February 19-20, 2018, the Valdai Discussion Club in partnership with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences will hold a conference, titled “Russia in the Middle East: Playing on All Fields.” The conference will take place in the format of an expert dialogue with the participation of well-known politicians, diplomats, experts and public figures from more than 30 countries.

  1. AKSENYONOK Alexander, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation; Vice-President, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

  2. 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)

  3. ALQAWASMI Sahar, Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)

  4. AYDIN Mustafa, Rector, Kadir Has University (Istanbul)

  5. BALIAN Hrair, Director, Conflict Resolution Program, The Carter Center

  6. BARZEGAR Kayhan, Kayhan BARZEGAR, Director, Center for Middle East Strategic Studies (Tehran)

  7. BECHARI Mohamed, Secretary General of the Islamic European Conference (IEC)

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

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

  10. DARKAZALLY Anwar, Director of Political Affairs, United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)

  11. DENGOV Lev, Head of the Russian Contact Group for intra-Libyan Settlement

  12. DERGHAM Raghida, Founder and Executive Chairman, Beirut Institute

  13. 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)

  14. ELBADRI Mohamed, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt

  15. 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

  16. GRANDJEAN Romain, Director, Near East and North Africa, Center for Humanitarian Dialogue

  17. HAGGAG Karim, Professor of Practice, The American University in Cairo

  18. HAWRAMI Hemin, Member of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Leadership Council, Senior Assistant to President Massoud Barzani

  19. HILTERMANN Joost, Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group

  20. JONES Deborah K., US Ambassador to Kuwait (2008-2011) and to Libya (2013-2015)

  21. 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

  22. KORTUNOV Andrey, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

  23. KUZNETSOV Vasily, Head of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

  24. LAVROV Sergey, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

  25. LEVY Daniel,            President, U.S. / Middle East Project

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

  27. NASER MOHAMED Ali, President of the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (1980–1986)

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

  29. 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)

  30. OZHAN Taha, Member of Grand National Assembly of Turkey

  31. RAMZY Ramzy E., Deputy Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria

  32. ROSEN Nir, Syria and Iraq advisor, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

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

  34. SHAABAN Bouthaina, Advisor to the President of the Syrian Arab Republic

  35. WRIGHT Robin, Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace; Distinguished Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Contributing Writer, The New Yorker magazine

  36. YADLIN Amos, Major General (ret.), Executive Director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

  37. ZAKI Hossam, Assistant Secretary General of the League of Arab States

  38. ZARIF Mohammad Javad, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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