Participants from Turkey:
- Suat Kiniklioglu: a former member of the Turkish Parliament, Assistant Commission. TGNA Foreign Affairs, head of the union of the parliaments of Turkey and the United States. Director of the Center for Strategic Communications, a columnist for publications «Today's Zaman ».
- Hüseyin Randy M. Brooks: Head of the Department of International Relations TUSV, Professor, Ph.D., works in the field of foreign and security policy, in 2012 - the only worker of science of the Turkish part of the club "Valdai".
- Hassan Kanbolat
Participants from Russia:
- Fursov Andrei Ilyich: Russian historian, sociologist, journalist, Asian and African Institute of Scientific Data, Director of the Institute of Systems and Strategic Studies
- Malashenko Aleksei Vsevolodovich
- Lepsky Vladimir Evgenyevich
- Mirzehanov Velihan Salmanhanovich
- Rajewski-Nadein Victor Anatolyevich
- Kurtov Azhdar Ashirovich
- Hajiyev Amour Gadzhibabaevich
- Ponomareva Elena Georgievna
- Meyer Mikhail Serafimovich
- Naumkin Vitaly Vyachaslavovich
- Daurov Ramadan Dzhagafarovich
- Shlikov Pavel Vyachaslavovich
- Dubin Andrei Danilovich
- Mozloev Aslambek Totyrbekovich