Opening Remarks by the Head of Organizing Committee, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, Yury Ushakov

Opening Remarks by the President of Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Alexander Dynkin

Opening Remarks by the President of the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sergey Katyrin

Moderator: Alexander Dynkin, President of Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Economics), Professor

Speakers:

• Sergey Kudryashov, General Director of Zarubezhneft JSC
• Pavel Zavalny, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy
• Jonathan Stern, Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
• Elena Telegina, Dean of the Faculty of International Energy Business of the Gubkin University, Head of the Department of Strategic Management of the Fuel and Energy Complex; Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Economics), Professor

Moderator: Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Speakers:

• Wolfgang Schüssel, Federal Chancellor of Austria (2000−2007), member of the Board of DER — Dialog-Europe-Russia
• Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria
• Feodor Voitolovsky, Director of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Politics)
• René Nyberg, Finnish diplomat
• Hans-Joachim Spanger, Head of the Research Department, Leibniz Institute Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)
• Paolo Magri, Executive Vice President of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and Professor of International Relations at Bocconi University

Moderator: Anatoly Torkunov, Rector of MGIMO University, Full Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Politics), Professor

Speakers:

• Fu Ying, Chair, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University
• Robert Daly, Director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
• Tomiko Ichikawa, Director General, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)
• Yan Xuetong, Director of the Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University
• Dan Smith, Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Alexander Lomanov, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, D.Sc. (History), Professor

Moderator: Alexander Grushko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Speakers:

• Thomas Gomart, Director of French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)
• Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali and Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen
• Nadezhda Arbatova, Head of Department for European Political Studies of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, D.Sc. (Politics)
• Markus Ederer, Ambassador of the European Union to the Russian Federation

Moderator: Vyacheslav Trubnikov, Member of Board of Directors of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Speakers:

• Samir Saran, President of the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
• Ashok Malik, Political Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India
• Alexey Kupriyanov, Head of Group on South Asia and Indian Ocean of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Cand. Sc. (History)
• Tatiana Shaumyan, Head of the Center for Indian Studies, Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Oriental Studies; Cand. Sc. (History)

Moderator: Vitaly Naumkin, Academic Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies; Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (History), Professor

Speakers:

• Raghida Dergham, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Beirut Institute
• Daniel Levy, President of the U.S. / Middle East Project
• Hugh Lovatt, Policy fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
• Nikolai Surkov, Senior Researcher of the Center for Middle East Studies of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Cand. Sc. (Politics)
• Vasily Kuznetsov, Head of the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies; Cand. Sc. (History)

Moderator: Sergey Lebedev, Chairman of the Executive Committee — CIS Executive Secretary

Speakers:

• Eldor Aripov, Director of the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan
• Kairat Kelimbetov, Chairman of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi
• Stanislav Zhukov, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, D.Sc.(Economics)
• Irina Zvyagelskaya, Head of the Center for Middle East Studies of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations; D.Sc. (History), Professor

Moderator: Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Speakers:

• Thomas Graham, Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
• Sergey Rogov, Academic Director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN), Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (History), Professor
• Michael Kofman, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analysis in Arlington, Virginia
• Alexander Cooley, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Director of The Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe
• Viktoria Zhuravleva, Head of the Center for North American Studies of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Cand. Sc. (Politics)
• Franco Frattini, President of the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI)