The 7th Valdai Club Meeting, an expert forum for international specialists on Russia, titled “Russia: History and Future Development,” is to run from August 31 through September 7, 2010.
PARTICIPANTS
CanadaPiotr DUTKIEWICZ
Professor and Director, Centre for Governance and Public Management, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; former Director, Institute of European and Russian Studies
China
Shaolei FENG
Dean, School of Advanced International and Area Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R.C.; Director, Centre for Russian Studies
Shiliang SHENG
Chief Researcher, Center for Global Challenges Studies, Xinhua News Agency (since 2005); Head, Russian sector, Institute for Social Development of Eurasia, Center for Development Research under the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (since 2001)
Guangcheng XING
Deputy director, Center of China’s Borderland History and Geography Research, D. Sc. of Law
Czech Republic
Alexej KELIN
Member of the Board, “Russian tradition” Society; member, editorial corporate staff, Russkoe Slovo journal; member, grant committee of the Czech Republic; member, NTS management committee; member of the Board, Czech/Moravian Slavonic association
France
Hélène CARRÈRE d’ENCAUSSE
President, French Academy Historian and Political Scientist; foreignmember, Russian Academy of Sciences; former Professor of Russian History and Russian Politics in Sorbonne and Institut d’Etudes politiques
Arnaud DUBIEN
Director of Russia and CIS Programmes, IRIS, Paris; regular consultant of the Quai d’Orsay and French MoD
Thomas GOMART
Director of the Russia/NIS Center, French Institute of International Relations based in Paris and Brussels (IFRI); Editor, trilingual electronic collection Russie.Nei.Visions @ifri.org
Arnaud KALIKA
Chief Editor, Confidential Newsletter Strategic Information TTU, specializing in issues geopolitics and military industries; lecturer, department for the study of organized crime, University of Paris II
Carole LANDRY
Deputy Chief Editor for Europe and Africa, Agence France Presse (since 2010)
Christian MAKARIAN
Deputy Editor, L’Express newsmagazine (since 1999)
Pierre ROUSSELIN
Foreign Editor, Le Figaro (since 2004)
Piotr SMOLAR
Reporter, foreign desk, Le Mond (since 2007)
Anne de TINGUY
Tenured Professor, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales – INALCO (since 2005) and Sciences po, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Member of the governing body of INALCO; Co-leader, CERI Transversal Project “Migrations and international relations”
Germany
Alexander RAHR
Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin (since 1995)
Andreas RINKE
Senior political correspondent, Reuters
Michael STUERMER
Chief Correspondent, WELT-Gruppe
Andreas UMLAND
Lecturer in Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine (since 2010)
Great Britain
Richard BEESTON
Foreign Editor, The Times, London
Neil BUCKLEY
Eastern Europe Editor, The Financial Times
Mary DEJEVSKY
Chief editorial writer and columnist, The Independent; honorary fellow, University of Buckingham
Charles GRANT
Founder director, Centre for European Reform, London
David HEARST
Chief Foreign Leader The Guardian
Geoffrey HOSKING
Emeritus Professor of Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (since 2008)
Anatol LIEVEN
Chair of international relations and terrorism studies, War Studies Department at King’s College London; senior fellow, New America Foundation, Washington DC
Dominic LIEVEN
Professor of Russian History, London School of Economics; fellow, British Academy
John PEET
European Editor, The Economist (since 2003)
Steve ROSENBERG
BBC Diplomatic Correspondent
Lord SKIDELSKY
Emeritus professor of political economy, Department of Economics, Warwick University
Hungary
Gabor STIER
Foreign policy analyst, Head, Foreign Affairs Desk, Magyar Nemzet, Hungarian conservative daily newspaper (since 2000)
Iran
Jahangir KARAMI
Assistant professor, faculty of World Studies, Department of Russian Studies, University of Tehran
Israel
Zvi MAGEN
Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Italy
Orietta MOSCATELLI
Head, New Europe Desk and New Energy Project, Apcom News Agency, Italian partner for Associated Press
Bruno SERGI
Professor, International Economics at the University, Messina; Principal Research Fellow and Member, Advisory Board, Centre for EMEA Banking, Finance and Economics, London Metropolitan Business School
Japan
Taisuke ABIRU
Research Fellow, The Tokyo Foundation (TKFD), an independent, not-for-profit think tank of Japan; Head, “Energy Issues and Japanese Foreign Policy”; Project Member, “Eurasia Information Network” - project which conducts fixed-point observation and in-the-field analysis of conditions in individual Eurasian countries and issues that transect them.
Poland
Adam MICHNIK
Editor-in-chief, Gazeta Wyborcza, the biggest daily in Poland; historian
Leszek MILLER
Leader, Democratic Left Alliance, former Prime Minister of the government of the Republic of Poland (2001-2004)
Andrzej ROZENEK
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, NIE (No) daily satire and political newspaper (since 2006); Deputy Chairman, Polish-German Club for Good Neighborliness
Russia
Sergey ALEKSASHENKO
Director of Macroeconomic Research, Higher School of Economics; Member of the Board, JSC "Aeroflot – Russian airlines"; chairman, Committee by strategy (since 2008); member of the Board, JSC "UAC" (since June 2010)
Pavel ANDREEV
Head of International Projects, Russian News and Information Agency RIA Novosti
Alexander ARKHANGELSKI
Literary critic; historical essayist; documentary director; columnist, “RIA Novosti”; author and anchor, daily intellectual talk-show ‘Tem vremenem’ (‘Those Days’), ‘Culture’ channel’, which is dedicated to key issues of cultural and social life (since 2002); member, administrative council; Russian Booker literary prize; professor, Higher School of Economics (since 2006)
Andrey ARTIZOV
Head of the Federal Archives Agency
Svetlana BABAEVA
US Bureau Chief, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti” (since 2008)
Dmitry BABICH
Political analyst, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti”
Alexander BABINSKY
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti”
Alexander BELKIN
Deputy Executive Director, Council of Foreign and Defense Policy (since 1994)
Lev BELOUSOV
Head, European and American Modern and Contemporary History, History Department, Moscow State Lomonosov University; Deputy Chairman, Editorial Board, Russia in Global Affairs magazine
Christopher BOIAN
Director of Foreign News Services, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti”
Timofei BORDACHEV
Deputy-dean, School of International Affairs and World Economy; Director of Studies, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP); Director, Center for International Studies, Faculty of International Economics and Politics, State University – Higher School of Economics, PhD (Politics)
Vladimir BULDAKOV
Senior fellow, Russian History Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Editor-in-Chief, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review magazine, Leiden, the Netherlands; D.Sc. in History
Irina DEMCHENKO
UK Bureau Chief, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti”
Viktor EROFEEV
Prose writer, TV anchor
Leonid GRIGORIEV
President, Institute for Energy and Finance (since 2004); senior researcher, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of sciences (since 1971); Dean, Management Department, International University, Moscow, professor; Chairman of the Board, WWF-Russia (since 2006)
Vladislav INOZEMTSEV
Founder and Director, Centre for Post-Industrial Studies (since 1996); Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Svobodnaya Mysl monthly;columnist, Vedomosti daily
Sergei KARAGANOV
Deputy Director, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Dean, Department, World Economy and World Politics, State University – Higher School of Economics, Chairman, Presidium, Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (since 1994), Chairman, editorial board of Russia in Global Affairs magazine
Konstantin KHUDOLEY
Pro-Rector for International Relations (since 2007), Dean, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University (since 1994)
Fyodor LUKYANOV
Editor–in–Chief, Russia in Global Affairs magazine (since 2002)
Alexey MALASHENKO
Member, Scientific Council, Carnegie Moscow Center; Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) (since 2000)
Alexei MILLER
Leading research-fellow, Institute for Scientific Information in Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (since 1999); professor, Chair of Post-Soviet Countries; Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow (since 2008); recurrent visiting professor, Central European University (Budapest), Department of History (since 1993)
Sergey MIRONENKO
Director, Russian State Archives; Professor of X1X-th and early XX-th Century History, History Department, Moscow State University; D.Sc. in History
Svetlana MIRONYUK
Editor-in-Chief, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti” (since 2006)
Aleksey MUHIN
Director-General, Center for Political Information
Vitaly NAUMKIN
Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2009); Ph.D in History, Doctor of Science, Professor
Vyacheslav NIKONOV
CEO of the “Russkiy Mir” Foundation; President, ‘Unity for Russia’ Foundation; Dean of History and Political Science, International University in Moscow; Editor-in-Chief, Russia’s Strategy; Deputy Chairman, Editorial Board, Russia in Global Affairs; President, ‘Club - 93’; Member of the Board, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy; Vice-President, Association of Political Consultancy Centers; Member of the Board, Russian Public Policy Center; Member, Advisory Council of Carnegie Endowment (Moscow Branch)
Ella PAMFILOVA
Russian politician; former Chair, Civil Society Institution and Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation (2002-2010)
Alexander PROKHANOV
Prose writer; Editor-in-Chief, Zavtra newspaper
Anatoly RAZUMOV
Senior researcher, Department of Bibliography and Local Studies, Director, Center for Recovered Names, National Library of Russia, St Petersburg
Kirill ROGOV
Leading research fellow, Gaidar Institute of economic policy
Vladimir RYZHKOV
Professor of High School of Economy (Moscow), Russian independent politician, Russian State Duma member (1993-2007)
Alexander SAGOMONYAN
Head, Theory and History of International Relations Department, Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU) (since 1999)
Denis SEKIRINSKY
PhD in History; senior research fellow, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences; secretary, National Committee of the Russian Historians; CEO, Academic Educational Association for the Humanities
Sergey STARTSEV
Bureau Chief, Russian News and information agency “RIA Novosti” in Italy (since 2004)
Dmitry SUSLOV
Deputy Director for Research, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy; Deputy Director, Center of European and International Studies, State University – Higher School of Economics
Tim WALL
Editor-in-Chief, The Moscow News
Andrey ZOLOTOV
Editor-in-Chief, Russia Profile; Deputy Director, International Service, Russian News and Information Agency “RIA Novosti”
Andrey ZUBOV
Professor of Philosophy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, D.Sc. in History
Slovakia
Jan CARNOGURSKY
Lawyer, advocate in Bratislava, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Czechoslovakia and former Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic
Turkey
Sinan OGAN
Founder and President, Center of International Relations and Strategic Analysis - TURKSAM (since 2004)
Ukraine
Mikhail POGREBINSKY
Director, Kiev Center for Political and Conflict Studies (since 1993)
USA
Samuel CHARAP
Associate Director for Russia and Eurasia; Fellow, National Security and International Policy Program, Center for American Progress
Timothy COLTON
Professor and Chairman, Department of Government, Harvard University; previously Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; co-chair of a working group on Russian-American relations
Stephen FIDLER
Brussels Editor, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires (since 2009); Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London
Toby GATI
Senior International Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC
Fiona HILL
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on the United States and Europe, the Brookings Institution (since 2009)
Andrew KUCHINS
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia & Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS); lecturer, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Clifford KUPCHAN
Research Director, Eurasia Group
Robert LEGVOLD
Director, The Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative; Project Director, ‘Rethinking U.S. Policy toward Russia,’ The American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Marshall D. Shulman Professor, Columbia University; Director of Soviet Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Andranik MIGRANYAN
Director, the New York City Branch, Institute for Democracy and Cooperation (since 2008)
Richard PIPES
Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard
Angela STENT
Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies and Professor of Government and Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow (non-resident), Brookings Institution and co-chairs its Hewett Forum on Post-Soviet Affairs
Nikolai ZLOBIN
Senior Fellow and Director of Russian and Asian Programs, World Security Institute, USA (since 2006)
