BORDACHEV Timofey, Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club; Research director, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
BYSTRITSKIY Andrey, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
DAMIRCHILOO Mojtaba, Head of the Russian Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Iran
JOWKAR Ali Akbar, Senior expert, IPIS
KABULOV Zamir, Second Asian Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
LUKYANOV Fyodor, Research director of the Valdai Discussion Club, Chairman, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs journal
MALEKI Abbas, Associate Professor of Energy Policy at Sharif University of Technology and Visiting Professor at Allameh Tabatabaei University
MARKEDONOV Sergey, Leading Researcher of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at the MGIMO Institute
MARYASOV Alexander, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Islamic Republic of Iran (2001-2005), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Thailand and Permanent Representative to UN ESCAP (2010-2014)
NAUMKIN Vitaly, Academic Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
PRITCHIN Stanislav, Research Fellow at the Center for Central Asia and Caucasus Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
SAJJADPOUR Seyed Kazem, Deputy foreign Minister and President of Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)
SANAEI Mehdi, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation
SHEIBANI Mohammad Reza Raouf, Senior expert, IPIS
SOBHANI Mahdi, Director General for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Iran
SUCHKOV Maxim, Senior Fellow at the MGIMO University; Editor, Al-Monitor
SUSHENTSOV Andrey, Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club; Associate Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University)
TISHEHYAR Mandana, Assistant Professor, Allameh Tabataba’i University
TRUEVTSEV Konstantin, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences