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Arthur Khachatryan
Mr. Arthur Khachatryan is an MP from the Hayastan Dashinq (Armenia alliance) and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF Dashnaktsutyun). In the past, he has held government posts such as Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Development, Governor of Shirak, and Minister of Agriculture.
Arthur Khachikyan
Dr. Arthur Khachikyan, an International Relations expert from Stanford University, specializing in intervention. He currently teaches at the Russian Armenian University in Yerevan.
Artur Papyan
Artur Papyan is a malware researcher, digital security consultant, co-founder of CyberHub and director of the Media DIversity Institute.
Artyom Tonoyan
Dr. Artyom Tonoyan is a Research Associate at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, where his research is focused on the nexus of religion and violence.
Arzu Geybulla
Arzu Geybulla is an Azerbaijani columnist and writer, with special focus in digital authoritarianism and its implications on human rights and press freedom in Azerbaijan. Arzu has written for Al Jazeera, Eurasianet, Foreign Policy Democracy Lab, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, CODA and more. She is a contributor at Open Democracy, IWPR, and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso.
Asbed Kotchikian
Asbed Kotchikian, is an Associate Professor of political science and international relations at the American University of Armenia.
Avet Adonts
Mr. Avet Adonts is a diplomat who has served Armenia through the ranks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In May, 2007, he was elected as a member of the parliament with the Prosperous Armenia party (BHK - Barkavaj Hayastan), and served as the chair of the standing committee on European integration of the National Assembly. In 2009 Mr. Adonts was appointed Armenia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium, and from 2014 to 2019 he served in Spain. From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Adonts served as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Barlow Der Mugrdechian
Dr. Barlow Der Mugrdechian is a historian and teaches Armenian language, art, literature, history, and culture courses in the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno. His main area of research has been Armenian literature, and he serves as the Berberian Coordinator of the Armenian Studies Program and the Director of the Center for Armenian Studies. In December 2024, Dr. Der Mugrdechian was elected as the president of the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS).
Benyamin Poghosyan
Dr. Benyamin Poghosyan is a Senior Research Fellow at APRI Armenia, a Yerevan based think tank,and the Chairman of the Center for Political and Economic Strategic Studies. He has served as the vice president for research and head of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense Research University in Armenia. Dr. Poghosyan was a Distinguished Research Fellow at the US National Defense University College of International Security Affairs. He is a graduate from the US State Department Study of the US Institutes for Scholars 2012 Program on US National Security Policy Making. He holds a PhD in history and is a graduate from the 2006 Tavitian Program on International Relations at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.