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Varuzhan Geghamyan
Prof. Varuzhan Geghamyan is assistant professor at Yerevan State University’s Department of Oriental Studies, teaching courses on Turkey’s modern history, History of Azerbaijan; Sociocultural anthropology of Azerbaijan; Political ideologies and parties in Modern Turkey & History of the Turkish Republic.
Virginia Davies
Entrepreneur and lawyer Virginia Davies is the New York-based founding president of Save Armenian Monuments.
Warwick Powell
Prof. Warwick Powell is Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Senior Fellow at Taihe Institute in Beijing. He is the author of “China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains”. “Dynamics of a Zero Trust World”. His work focuses on digital innovation, technologies, and international political economy.
Dr. Powell is the author of “Thermoeconomics in a Time of Monsters: Rethinking Theory, China and International Geopolitical Economy”.
William Bairamian
William Bairamian is the founder and editor of The Armenite. He has written extensively on Armenian politics, culture, and society. He received degrees in international affairs from Columbia University and UCLA.
Yeghia Tashjian
Yeghia Tashjian is an regional analyst and researcher based in Beirut, with expertise in China’s geopolitical and energy security interests in Iran and the Persian Gulf. Currently he is an instructor in International Affairs at the American University of Science and Technology and International and Regional Affairs Cluster Coordinator at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.
Yeghishe Zakunts
Yeghishe Zakunts is a political activist in Armenia. He fights for the rights of the parents and relatives of Armenian fallen soldiers.
YoungMin
YoungMin is a traveler and vlogger, who visited Artsakh, Nagorno Karabakh, earlier in 2026. He documented his Artsakh experience in a video on his YouTube channel YoungMin Skies. Artsakh was YoungMin’s 129’th country visited.
Zaroui Pogossian
Prof. Zaroui (Zara) Pogossian is a specialist in medieval Armenian history, culture and religion, especially in relation to other peoples, cultures and religions in West Asia. She is Associate Professor of Byzantine Civilization at the University of Florence, and the Principal Investigator of the prestigious European Research Council project ArmEn: Armenia Entangled: Connectivity and Cultural Encounters in Medieval Eurasia 9th-14th Centuries. Pogossian is the author of a monograph on “The Letter of Love and Concord”, Leiden 2011, editor of several books and author of numerous articles. She has been the recipient of various fellowships, such as from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Käte Hamburger Collegium at the Center for Religious Studies (University of Bochum, Germany) and the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (University of Erlangen, Germany). Prof. Pogossian is a co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Armeniaca: International Journal of Armenian Studies (first issue in September 2022). She is one of the founding members and general editors of the series Eastern Christian Cultures in Contact (Brepols editors).