
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

Fahrettin Altun
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

Mehmet Zahid Sobacı
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF TRT

Danilo Türk
Former President, Slovenia

Ayşe Sözen Usluer
Ambassador of Turkey to the Sultanate of Oman

Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut
Head of the EU Delegation to Turkey

Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations

Nasser Judeh
Former Deputy PM, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan

Hina Rabbani Khar
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Ahmed Mohammed Al-Meraikhi
Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General

Faruk Kaymakcı
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director for EU Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Akif Çağatay Kılıç
Chairman, Turkish Grand National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee

Ahmet Yıldız
Representative, Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe; Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Deputy AK Party

Yavuz Selim Kıran
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

James Franklin Jeffrey
Chair of the Middle East Program, Wilson Center

Tehmina Janjua
CVAmb Tehmina Janjua, Former Foreign Secretary

Dennis MacShane
United Kingdom's Former Minister for Europe

Bruno Maçães
Senior Advisor, Flint Global

Alistair Burt
Pro-Chancellor, Lancaster University

Iuliia Mendel
Communications and Political Consultant and a Journalist

Thomas Greminger
Director, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

Shukria Barakzai
Afghan Politician & Former Ambassador of Afghanistan to Oslo, Norway

Nick Bridge
Diplomat; Civil servant

Maria Neira
Director, Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization (WHO)

Prince El Hassan bin Talal
President and Founder of the Arab Thought Forum

Gülnur Aybet
Senior Adviser to the President of Republic of Turkey

Alvaro Rodriguez
UN Officer in Charge in Turkey

Anas Altikriti
CEO & FOUNDER, THE CORDOBA FOUNDATION

Susan M. Elliott
PRESIDENT&CEO, NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY; FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO TAJIKISTAN

Mariam Wardak
FOUNDER, HER AFGHANISTAN

Alexander Verbeek
ENVIRONMENTALIST

Mohammad Daoud Abedi
HEAD OF AFGHAN NATION PEACE COUNCIL

Ufuk Ulutaş
CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC RESEARCH (SAM) AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TURKEY

Samir Saran
PRESIDENT, OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Chandra Muzaffar
PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT FOR A JUST WORLD (JUST)

Madeleine de Cock Buning
VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLIC POLICY EMEA AT NETFLIX

Kaja Ciglic
SENIOR DIRECTOR, DIGITAL PEACE

Andrey Kortunov
DIRECTOR GENERAL, RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL (RIAC)

Sultan Barakat
DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR CONFLICT & HUMANITARIAN STUDIES; HONORARY PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF YORK

Richard G. Whitman
DIRECTOR, GLOBAL EUROPE CENTRE; PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF KENT; ASSOCIATE FELLOW EUROPE PROGRAM, CHATHAM HOUSE

Tarik M. Yousef
DIRECTOR AND SENIOR FELLOW, BROOKINGS DOHA CENTER

John N. Nkengasong
DIRECTOR, AFRICA CENTRES FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

Dania Thafer
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GULF INTERNATIONAL FORUM

Charles Grant
DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN REFORM

Lauren M. Speranza
DIRECTOR OF THE TRANSATLANTIC DEFENSE AND SECURITY PROGRAM AT THE CENTER FOR EUROPEAN POLICY ANALYSIS (CEPA)

Jonathan Patz
DIRECTOR, GLOBAL HEALTH INSTITUTE

Emil Avdaliani
DIRECTOR OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, GEOCASE

Antonio Villafranca
DIRECTOR OF STUDIES, ISPI; CO-HEAD, EUROPE AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE CENTRE

Richard Falk
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Alexander Dugin
FOUNDER, EURASIA PARTY

Robert O. Keohane
MERITUS PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Andreas Wimmer
LIEBER PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Alexander Cooley
CLAIRE TOW PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND DIRECTOR OF THE HARRIMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RUSSIA, EURASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE

Salman Sayyid
PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL THEORY AND DECOLONIAL THOUGHT AND THE HEAD OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

Özden Zeynep Oktav
PROFESSOR, ISTANBUL MEDENIYET UNIVERSITY

Ersel Aydınlı
PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT BILKENT UNIVERSITY

Khaled A. Beydoun
LAW PROFESSOR, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY

Barbara Slavin
DIRECTOR, FUTURE OF IRAN INITIATIVE, ATLANTIC COUNCIL

Riccardo Alcaro
RESEARCH COORDINATOR AND HEAD OF THE GLOBAL ACTORS PROGRAMME OF THE ISTITUTO AFFARI INTERNAZIONALI

Kalypso Nicolaidis
PROFESSOR CHAIR OF GLOBAL AFFAIRS AT THE EUI SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE

Michael Kugelman
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ASIA PROGRAM AT WILSON CENTER

Dmitry V. Suslov
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR COMPREHENSIVE EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (CCEIS)

Heather Barr
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Simon Adams
PRESIDENT & CEO, CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE

Maryyum Mehmood
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, EDWARD CADBURY CENTRE FOR THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGION, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Christian Odendahl
CHIEF ECONOMIST, CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN REFORM

Vicky Pryce
CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER AND BOARD MEMBER, THE CENTRE FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS RESEARCH

Stéphane Duguin
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CYBERPEACE INSTITUTE

Annalisa Primi
HEAD OF THE ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION, OECD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE

Richard Outzen
GEOPOLITICAL CONSULTANT

Sanjaya Baru
DISTINGUISHED FELLOW, THE UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION OF INDIA

Pavel K. Baev
RESEARCH PROFESSOR, PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE; SENIOR NON-RESIDENT FELLOW, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

Barnett Rubin
SENIOR FELLOW, CENTRE ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Luke Coffey
DIRECTOR OF ALLISON CENTRE FOR FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES, THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

Anas El-Gomati
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, SADEQ INSTITUTE

Valeria Talbot
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW; CO-HEAD OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA CENTRE, ISPI

Tarek Megerisi
SENIOR POLICY FELLOW, EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

Hafsa Halawa
NON RESIDENT SCHOLAR AT THE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE & VISITING FELLOW AT THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

Mikhail Troitskiy
DEAN, SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, MOSCOW STATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (MGIMO)

Michael A. Reynolds
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Nadia Abu-Zahra
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND THE JOINT CHAIR IN WOMEN’S STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA AND CARLETON UNIVERSITY

Natasha Kuhrt
LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR STUDIES, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

Helin Sarı Ertem
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ISTANBUL MEDENIYET UNIVERSITY

Alexis Antoniades
DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (QATAR)

Sahar Khamis
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

Talha Köse
COORDINATOR, SETA BRUSSELS OFFICE & ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AT IBN HALDUN UNIVERSITY

Murat Yeşiltaş
DIRECTOR, FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES, SETA FOUNDATION

Enes Bayraklı
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, TURKISH GERMAN UNIVERSITY

Gregory Simons
RESEARCHER AT INSTITUTE FOR RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY

Ali M. Latifi
AJE KABUL CORRESPONDENT

David Carroll
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR. PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, THE NEW SCHOOL

Yulia Nikitina
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF WORLD POLITICS AND RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE CENTER FOR THE POST-SOVIET STUDIES AT THE MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (MGIMO)

Ali Bakır
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, IBN KHALDON CENTRE FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, QATAR UNIVERSITY

Zongyuan Zoe Liu
INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, TEXAS A&M’S BUSH SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICE

Mete Çoban MBE
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, MY LIFE MY SAY

Musab Iqbal
LECTURER, COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CAMRI), UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER

John E. McLaughlin
DISTINGUISHED PRACTITIONER IN RESIDENCE AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (SAIS)

Diane Karusisi
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER BANK OF KIGALI

Amer Bukvic
ACTING CHIEF PRODUCT AND PARTNERSHIP OFFICER, ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK

M. Tahir Kılavuz
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT MARMARA UNIVERSITY

Muhammet Koçak
RESEARCH FELLOW, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Zeynep Koç
RESEARCHER

Saad Mohseni
CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF MOBY GROUP

Prince Nadir Naim
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, KABUL INSTITUTE OF PEACE

Khadijah Alshayyal
ASSOCIATE FELLOW, THE ALWALEED CENTRE

Eugene Wang
PROFESSOR OF ASIAN ART AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Kenny Schachter
ARTIST, ART DEALER AND WRITER

Charles Burchell
FOUNDER OF LEX SOUNDS

Stephen Duncombe
PROFESSOR OF MEDIA AND CULTURE AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Lucy Moyse Ferreira
LECTURER IN FASHION MEDIA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON

Josh Dyer
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AT MYSEUM OF TORONTO

Benny Or
ARTS INFLUENCER

Emine Serdaroğlu
PIANIST

Dilbağ Tokay
CELLIST

Özgün Bora
GUITARIST

Muhammed Yıldırır
VIOLINIST

Bahar Göksu
HARPIST

Özgecan Günöz
VIOLINIST

Rustem Rahmedov
PIANIST

Tarek Cherkaoui
MANAGER, TRT WORLD RESEARCH CENTRE

Alican Ayanlar
TRT WORLD PRESENTER

Ali Mustafa
TRT WORLD PRESENTER

Talip Küçükcan
PROFESSOR, MARMARA UNIVERSITY; SENIOR FELLOW, TRT WORLD RESEARCH CENTRE

Şener Aktürk
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, KOÇ UNIVERSITY; SENIOR FELLOW, TRT WORLD RESEARCH CENTRE

Yusuf Erim
EDITOR AT LARGE, TRT WORLD

Oubai Shahbandar
DEFENCE ANALYST, TRT WORLD

Sibel Karkuş
TRT WORLD GERMANY CORRESPONDENT

Tanya Goudsouzian
HEAD OF INTERVIEW, TRT WORLD

Elif Bereketli
TRT WORLD PRESENTER

Rachael Ruble
TRT WORLD PRESENTER

Ali Aslan
TRT WORLD PRESENTER

Andrea Sanke
TRT WORLD PRESENTER

Nafisa Latic
TRT WORLD PRESENTER

Auskar Surbakti
TRT WORLD PRESENTER

H.G. Masters

Xiaoming Zhang