BEI Wenli, Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Russia at the East China Normal University
BORDACHEV Timofei, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the HSE
BYSTRITSKIY Andrey, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
CHAN Chichung, Chairman of the Board of Hang Lung Properties
CHEN Dongxiao, President of the Shanghai Academy of International Studies
FAN Jun, Vice-rector of the East China Normal University (2009-2014)
FENG Shaolei, Director of Centre for Russian Studies at the East China Normal University
FENG Yujun, Deputy Director, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
GAO Bai, Professor at Duke University
GAO Yusheng, SCO Deputy Secretary-General (2007-2010); Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the PRC to Ukraine (2005-2007)
GU Jinshan, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Government
GUO Xiaoli, Professor of the Institute of Foreign Languages, Hebei Nomal University
KARAGANOV Sergey, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics of the Higher School of Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy
KASHIN Vasily, Senior Researcher, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE; Leading Researcher of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
LIU Hong, Deputy Editor of the “Globe” magazine at Xinhua News Agency
LOMANOV Alexander, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Center for the Studies and Forecasting of Russia-China Relations
LUZYANIN Sergey, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
MAKAROV Igor, Head of the World Economy Program, HSE
QIAN Xuhong, Rector of the East China Normal University
RODIONOV Alexei, First Deputy Dean of the Eastern Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University
SHENG Shiliang, Senior Research Fellow at Xinhua News Agency’s Global Challenges Studies Center,
SHI Ze, Director of the Center for Security and Development of Eurasia, China Institute for International Studies
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; Chair, Regional Programs, "Russkiy Mir» Foundation
VOLIN Alexey, Deputy Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
WANG Haiyun, Major-General; Senior Adviser of the Chinese Scientific Association of International Strategies; Senior Consultant of the SCO Chinese Research Center
WANG Shaoguang, Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
WANG Xianju, Deputy Director of the Center for Russian Studies at the RUC-SPbSU; Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Development of Europe and Asia at the Research Center for Development of the State Council of China
YU Bin, Professor of Political Science at Wittenberg University
YU Yunquan, Vice President, Academy of Contemporary China and the External World, Beijing
ZHANG Deguang, Chairman, Council of the China Foundation for International Affairs; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (1995-2001); Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Russian Federation (2001-2003); First Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
ZHANG Xin, Researcher, Center for the Study of Russia at the East China Normal University
ZHOU Liqun, Chairman of the Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia