Andrey Chebotarev, director of the Alternativa Center for Current Research (Kazakhstan);
Gulmira Ileuova, director of the Strategia Centre for Social and Political Research;
Yerlan Karin, Chairman of the Kazakhstan Council on Foreign Relations (CASMO);
Daniyar Kosnazarov, The Steppe Editor-in-Chief, and
Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director, Valdai Discussion Club;
Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club;
Alexander Lomanov, Chief Researcher at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), RAS;
Ivan Safranchuk, Leading Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO-University;
Evgeny Vinokurov, Chief Economist of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilisation and Development;
Saken Zhumashev, KPMG Managing Partner in Kazakhstan and Central Asia.