Valdai Club

Amal ABOU ZEID, Advisor to the President Lebanon; Member of the Lebanese Parliament, Free Patriotic Movement (2016–2018)

Ali ALAHMAD, Political and public figure, Syria

Ebtesam AL-KETBI, Founder and President, Emirates Policy Center

Mustafa AYDIN, President, International Relations Council of Turkey

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

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

Galip DALAY, Research Director, Al Sharq Forum; Mercator Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Raghida DERGHAM, Founder and Executive Chairman, Beirut Institute

Mohamed ELJARH, Co-Founder and CEO, Libya Outlook for Research and Consulting

Joost HILTERMANN, Programme Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group

Mohammed IHSAN, Senior Professor, College of War, King’s College London

Maria KHODYNSKAYA-GOLENISHCHEVA, Senior Advisor, Foreign Policy Planning Department, Russian Foreign Ministry

Andrey KORTUNOV, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council

Vasily KUZNETSOV, Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Fyodor LUKYANOV, Research Director, Foundation for Development and Support of theValdai Discussion Club

Zvi MAGEN, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Tel Aviv University

Ahmad MAJDALANI, Minister of Social Development of the State of Palestine

Omar MOHAMMED, Founder, Mosul Eye

Igor MORGULOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Amre MOUSSA, Secretary General, League of Arab States (2001-2011)

Vitaly NAUMKIN, President, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Science; Full Member, Russian Academy of Sciences

Nir ROSEN, Syria and Iraq Advisor, Humanitarian Dialogue Centre

Mehdi SANAEI, Senior Advisor to Iranian Foreign Minister

Dorothée SCHMID, Senior Research Fellow, Head of Ifri’s Turkey and Middle East Program

Randa SLIM, Senior Fellow and Director, Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute

Ivan TIMOFEEV, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

Yahia H. ZOUBIR, Senior Professor of International Studies; Director of Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School, Visiting Fellow at the Brooking Doha Center

Irina ZVYAGELSKAYA, Head, Center for Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences