Valdai Discussion Club
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| Think tank | |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Key people
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Andrey Bystritskiy, Nadezhda Lavrentieva, Fyodor Lukyanov |
| Website | valdaiclub |
The Valdai Discussion Club is a Moscow-based think tank, established in 2004. It is named after Lake Valdai, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the Club’s first meeting took place.
The Club aims to promote dialogue among international intellectual elites and to deliver independent objective scholarly analysis of political, economic, and social developments in Russia and the world. he Club’s main objective is to promote dialogue within the global intellectual elite in order to find solutions to overcome crisises facing the globe. The Club actively collaborates with opinion makers across various fields, including international relations, global politics, economics, security, energy, sociology, and communications. The Club’s meetings have been attended by many leading politicians, experts, public figures and cultural figures from Russia and other countries. Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with the participants of the Valdai Club’s annual meetings every year since its founding.
More than 1,000 representatives of the international scholarly community from 62 countries have taken part in the club’s work. They include professors from major world universities and think tanks, including Harvard, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Stanford University, Carleton University, the University of London, Cairo University, the University of Tehran, East China Normal University, the University of Tokyo, Tel Aviv University, the University of Messina, Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics, King’s College London, Sciences Po and the Sorbonne.
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