Guests of Groong Podcast

Hagop Djernazian

Hagop Djernazian is an activist and co-founder of the Save The ArQ movement. He lives in Jerusalem and studies International relations and middle east studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hagop Ipdjian

Hagop Idjian is advisor to the State Minister, he runs Artsakh Support Body, an humanitarian organization based in Artsakh. He’s a diasporan who moved to Artsakh following the war in 2020.

Hakob Hakobyan

Hakob Hakobyan is the co-chair of the Artsakh Justice Party.

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Hamid Bahrami

Hamid Bahrami is an Iranian independent international relations analyst specialising in Eurasian and Middle Eastern affairs. He holds an MA (Hons) in International Relations and Politics from the University of Dundee and an MRes in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Glasgow, where his research examined Russia’s policies in the South Caucasus. Since 2018, he has published analysis and commentary in leading international outlets on topics including South Caucasus geopolitics, regional conflicts, Iran’s nuclear programme, and counter-terrorism.

Harry Istepanian

Harry Istepanian is a PMP-certified, independent Energy Expert with more than 30 years of experience in the energy and water sectors. He worked for major international engineering consultancy firms, including Parsons Brinckerhoff, AECOM, and Power Engineers Inc. in different capacities. He was also appointed by many international organizations, including the World Bank, USAID, and USTDA to work on several development projects in Asia and Africa.

Mr. Istepanian has published over 30 op-eds, articles, peer-reviewed papers, and conference presentations in international energy and think tank journals such as the Brookings Institute, the Atlantic Council, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Power Engineering International, and the Electricity Journal.

Harry is the founder of Iraq Climate Change Center (IC3+), a non-profit think tank based in Washington D.C.

Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian, who is the Chairman of the board of trustees of HyelD. He’s also the publisher of The California Courier newspaper, and the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization which has delivered over one $1.06 Billion in humanitarian assistance to Armenia and Artsakh since 1989.

Hayk Mamijanyan

Hayk Mamijanyan is the leader of the oppositional Pativ Unem (With Honor) alliance in the Armenian National Assembly, and a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). He’s also a member of the parliamentary group representing Armenia at the PACE, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Heghnar Watenpaugh

Prof. Heghnar Watenpaugh teaches Art and Architecture at the University of California, Davis, and is a board member of Save Armenian Monuments

Hovhannes Ishkhanyan

Hovhannes Ishkhanyan, writer, documentary filmmaker, publicist, co-founder of Eye for an Eye (Akn Und Akan), a community of documentarians. Hovhannes has a Master’s in journalism from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.