Armen Aghasaryan is a research manager at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs in France. He holds a Ph.D. in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from the University of Rennes, France, an M.S. in Control System Engineering from the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute, and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the American University of... more

Irina Alaverdyan received her M.A. in May 2008 from Georgetown University, in the Culture, Communication and Technology program. Her interests include communication campaigns, online communications, and PR/marketing. She holds an M.A. from the American University of Armenia, majoring in Political Science. Previously, she... more

Socrat Arakelyan is a Group Anti Money Laundering Compliance Officer for Emirates NBD Group in the United Arab Emirates. Prior to moving to the UAE, Socrat worked at the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) as the UK representative of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units. Whilst working as an... more

Raffy Ardhaldjian is currently a VP in a $500 M emerging markets private equity fund. Mr. Ardhaldjian has previously held responsible positions at Booz Allen & Hamilton, HNC Software, The IBM Corporation, Siemens & the Helios Group. Mr. Ardhaldjian holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MA from the Fletcher... more

Vahagn Asatryan holds Ph.D. and M.B.A and is currently the Associate Director at the Richard E. Dyke Center for Family Business, and he is also an Assistant Professor and researcher at Husson College in Maine. Dr. Asatryan’s expertise lies in the tourism/hospitality industry, including consumer behavior and hospitality... more

Ruben Atoyan is an economist at Policy Development and Review Department of International Monetary Fund. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina and a Candidate of Science (equivalent to Ph.D.) degree in Construction Mechanics from Saratov State Technical University... more

Vahe Avetian is a writer and human rights activist. He has been involved in Armenia's independence movement since 1988, having joined the Independence Army from the first day of its foundation. He is also a founding member and a former member of the Council of the Republican Party of Armenia. In 1992, Vahe emigrated to Sweden... more

Babken Babajanian holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York. He is a Tutorial Fellow at the Department of Social Policy of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He teaches courses on International and Comparative... more

Narine Badasyan holds a PhD. in Economics and is currently a member of the Murray State University faculty, where she focuses on telecommunications economics and regulatory policy, particularly related to the Internet infrastructure.

Edik Baghdasaryan is currently the head of the Investigative Journalists’ NGO and Editor-in-Chief of the HETQ Online newspaper. He also teaches courses in Investigative Journalism and TV Journalism at Yerevan State University. He holds degrees in TV Journalism from Moscow State University and from the Philological Department at... more

Levon Bagramian is a senior in Political Science and Economics at Columbia University (cum laude). Over the past seven years, Levon Bagramian has been actively involved in community organization. In 2006, he founded Advocates for Armenia, a small group of Armenians from United States and Canada aiming to further advocate,... more

Armine Barseghyan studies Business Information Technology at the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki. Having received a BBA degree in International Marketing, she has worked as a marketing consultant and market researcher in India, Finland and Italy for companies operating in natural stones industry. She has... more

Ruby Chorbajian is a recent graduate of the Human Rights LLM program at Queen's University, Belfast, with a dissertation entitled, Human Rights Obligations and Corporate Accountability: A Call for Enforceable Alternatives to Corporate Self-Regulation. Her areas of concentration included humanitarian law, minority... more

Annie Demirjian is an Executive with the Canadian Federal Government on secondment to UNDP-Iraq. She has led the Governance and Civil Society portfolio for over 12 UN Agencies and her responsibilities included overseeing and management of Governance and Civil Society support initiatives for Iraq. She has worked with the Prime... more

Dzovinar Derderian is a graduate student at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. She specializes in Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, with a specific emphasis on the geopolitics of the South Caucasus. She received her BA in International Relations and Russian and East European Studies from Tufts... more

Lisa Esayian is a partner in the litigation group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, based in Chicago. She focuses on complex litigation and counseling matters involving asbestos, other mass torts, insurance coverage and bankruptcy throughout the United States. She has also handled environmental matters and class actions. Ms. Esayian... more

Areg Gharabeghian holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Energy, Resources, and Environment. He has extensive experience in the construction of urban infrastructure in the U.S., and has also been the project manager of the Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America's (AESA) Fast Growing Tree... more

David Grigorian is an Economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park, a Masters degree in Economics from the Central European University, Prague, a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering from the American University of Armenia,... more

Ms. Grigoiran has close to thirty years of experience in international development, working as a consultant for USAID, UN, UNDP and the private sector in Armenia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States. She has worked on issues including, but not limited to, counter human trafficking, gender, program management, NGO... more

Anush Hakobyan is a doctoral candidate in economics at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education, Prague (CERGE-EI). She holds an MA in Economics from CERGE-EI and an M.A. from Yerevan State University’s Department of Cybernetic Economics. Prior to starting her graduate work, Ms. Hakobyan had... more

Vahe Heboyan is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Georgia (USA), specializing in International Economics and Development. He holds a B.A. from the Armenian State Agrarian University (1999) and an M.S. from the University of Georgia (2001), where he served as the president of the Armenian Club and the president of the... more

Armen Hovakimian is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, The City University of New York, where he has taught undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses in financial management and corporate finance. Professor Hovakimian’s recent research has focused on determinants of corporate... more

Garbis Iradian is a Senior Economist with the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department. He joined the IMF in 1991 and worked on several African and Middle Eastern economies including Jordan, Syria, Algeria, Sudan, and Mauritania. Between June 2000 and September 2002, he was the IMF resident representative in Armenia. His... more

Armine Ishkanian is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the Centre for Civil Society and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her research focuses on civil society and democracy building, and her regional expertise is on the countries of the former Soviet... more

Matthew Karanian is a litigation attorney in Los Angeles, California and has practiced law in California and Connecticut since 1987. He has also served as a research attorney with Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration where the focus of his work was on the human rights of... more

Ursula Kazarian worked as a project developer in Tbilisi, Georgia and later as the Country Director for the Armenian office of the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) in Yerevan, where she specialized in public awareness programming for urgent environmental issues pertaining to public health, human rights, and... more

Etienne Kechichian currently consults for the Foreign Investment Advisory Services group of the IFC. Etienne's main area of expertise is in assisting countries to improve their business environment and their ability to attract FDI in order to generate investments and create jobs. His work has encompassed a number of countries,... more

Arthur Khachikian holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Stanford University. His dissertation and research focused on great power politics and intervention in the international system as well as international history. Dr. Khachikian currently works in the private sector.

Robert Khatchadourian interned at the USAID-sponsored Armenia Legislatve Strengthening Program (ALSP) where he reviewed policies and recommendations made by foreign government institutions to increase citizen participation and democratization in Armenia. This included helping citizen action committees and political parties... more

Asbed Kotchikian is the Assistant Director of International Affairs Program and instructor of Political Science at Florida State University where he teaches courses on the Middle East, former Soviet Union, nationalism and state-nation relations. He received BA in political science and public administration from American... more

Robert Kurkjian is an international environmental consultant. He has more than 18 years of experience conducting complex environmental investigations, evaluating surface and ground water resources, determining impacts to marine sediments, and managing hazardous wastes. He has conducted extensive research in the U.S. and in... more

Ara Manoogian, a native of California, resides in Arsakh. He is the representative of his family’s Shahan Nataie Foundation a non-profit corporation with a mission to address social, economic, cultural, and educational issues in Artsakh. Over the last 8 years, Ara has also been involved with advocacy to defend the rights of the... more

Edgar Martirosyan is currently a third year law student at UCLA School of Law. He received his B.A. from UCLA in Political Science, with a concentration in International Relations, and a minor in Armenian Studies. Throughout law school, he has clerked for the California Attorney General's office, served as a judicial extern for... more

Jeff Masarjian became Executive Director of Armenia Tree Project in 2001, following a long career in clinical social work, family treatment, and organizational management in the non-profit sector. He founded, and for 13 years directed, a specialized foster care program for children at risk. In addition to having a private... more

Tigran Melkonyan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Iowa State University, and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Mathematics from Yerevan State University in Armenia. Prior to joining the University of Nevada, Dr.... more

Alla Mirzoyan holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University. She is also a graduate of Moscow State University’s Institute of Asia and Africa. Her research focuses on Armenia’s foreign policy, regional geopolitics, and the role of identity and collective memory in security and foreign policy... more

Vahagn Movsesyan holds a Ph.D. from Sant' Anna, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Economics Research Institute, Armenia. With over 14 years of experience both in public and private sectors, Dr. Movsesyan is currently at EDHEC, in Nice, France. He has worked in several European countries, always keeping tight links with... more

Richard Ohanian received a BS in Applied Physics from Azad University, Tehran, Iran in 1994, and a BS and MS from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He worked at JPL/NASA (Pasadena, California) for a short period of time and is currently with Axiom Micro-devices... more

Ashot Papoyan is a Research Associate at Tetragenetics Inc. He joined Tetragenetics after completing his Ph.D. at Cornell University in the Department of Plant Biology. During his graduate studies he majored in Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology where he was studying heavy metal accumulation and... more

Fr. Vertanes Kalayjian is Pastor Emeritus of St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church in Washington, DC where he served 31 years. In addition to his pastoral activities, he has served as a diocesan representative on the National Council of Churches, Department of Middle Eastern Missions and at the World Council of Churches' regional... more

Vahe Sahakyan is a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and a PhD candidate in Quantitative Finance at the Swiss Finance Institute, Zurich. He also holds a Candidate of Science (equivalent to PhD) in Mathematical Methods in Economics from the Yerevan State University, Master of Arts in... more

Hayk Sargsyan is a Consultant at the World Bank Africa Region Finance and Private Sector Division. Before joining his current unit, Mr. Sargsyan worked for the Bank’s Development Economics Research Group focusing on investment climate. He has also held a position of research analyst with the World Security Institute covering... more

Audrey Selian currently works on sustainable development projects, focusing on applying the rigor of commercial and 'private sector' thinking to a range of development enterprise projects in the agriculture, clean energy and water sectors in India. During the period of her doctoral studies, Audrey researched the impact of... more

Vladimir Shekoyan holds a doctoral degree in Economics from the Moscow State University and doctoral degree in Finance from Georgetown University. Dr. Shekoyan has more than 15 years of international experience in accounting and auditing, macro-economics, financial analysis, policy research, quantitative and statistical... more

Jason A. Sohigian is the Deputy Director of Armenia Tree Project. His primary role in the organization is communication of program goals and achievements among funders, the media, and the environmental community through publications, press releases, direct mail, and events. Jason is pursuing an M.A. in Environmental Management... more

Arsen Stepanyan is a civil society practitioner currently in charge of the advocacy program cluster of the Civic Advocacy Support Program. He has extensive experience in providing consultations to a number of governmental and non-governmental agencies on constituency relations, public participation in and transparency of... more

Gayane Torosyan is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Oneonta Department of Communication Arts. She received her Ph.D. and Masters degrees from the University of Iowa, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Masters equivalent in mathematics from Yerevan State University. Dr. Torosyan has... more

Jeffrey Tufenkian is the President and Co-Founder of the Kanach Foundation, and the Environmental Branch Manager of the Tufenkian Foundation. He has over twenty years of advocacy experience in the U.S. and most recently in Armenia on a variety of issues including environmental protection, human rights, public health, and... more

Mais Vanoyan is a Senior Team Leader at a USAID-funded Local Government Program implemented by the Research Triangle Institute International in Armenia. He received his Masters Degree in Geophysics from Yerevan State University in 1977 and his Ph.D. from St. Petersburg Mine Institute (Russia) in 1986. Since independence, Mais... more