Third Russia-Iran Dialogue. Speakers
Valdai Discussion Club Conference Hall (Bolshaya Tatarskaya 42, Moscow, Russia)
Programme

On June 26, 2019, the Valdai Discussion Club will host the 3rd Russian-Iranian Dialogue in Moscow, in partnership with the Tehran Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS). Iran is a rapidly developing state; its role in regional and world politics is visibly growing. The bilateral Russian-Iranian dialogue will be dedicated to the problems of strategic partnership between Russia and Iran, as well as to the analysis of the international situation as viewed by Moscow and Tehran. The experts will discuss the state of affairs in the global energy market, the end of the war in Syria, and cooperation within the framework of the Russia-Iran-Turkey triangle.

  1. BORDACHEV Timofey, Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club; Research director, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

  3. DAMIRCHILOO Mojtaba, Head of the Russian Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Iran

  4. JOWKAR Ali Akbar, Senior expert, IPIS

  5. KABULOV Zamir, Second Asian Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

  6. LUKYANOV Fyodor, Research director of the Valdai Discussion Club, Chairman, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs journal

  7. MALEKI Abbas, Associate Professor of Energy Policy at Sharif University of Technology and Visiting Professor at Allameh Tabatabaei University

  8. MARKEDONOV Sergey, Leading Researcher of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at the MGIMO Institute

  9. 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)

  10. NAUMKIN Vitaly, Academic Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

  11. PRITCHIN Stanislav, Research Fellow at the Center for Central Asia and Caucasus Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

  12. SAJJADPOUR Seyed Kazem, Deputy foreign Minister and President of Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS)

  13. SANAEI Mehdi, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation

  14. SHEIBANI Mohammad Reza Raouf, Senior expert, IPIS

  15. SOBHANI Mahdi, Director General for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Iran

  16. SUCHKOV Maxim, Senior Fellow at the MGIMO University; Editor, Al-Monitor

  17. SUSHENTSOV Andrey, Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club; Associate Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University)

  18. TISHEHYAR Mandana, Assistant Professor, Allameh Tabataba’i University

  19. TRUEVTSEV Konstantin, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences