Dilijan 2025

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Schedule

June 26, 2025

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June 28, 2025

Jun 26
Jun 27
Jun 28
Registration/Coffee
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9:30
Panelists
Welcome
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10:00
Panelists
Looking ahead: ASOF strategy
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11:00

Video: ASOF conversations excerpts

Key questions: Update on activities during 2025, priorities for 2026, new models of operations

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Break
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11:30

Use the QR code provided to submit your comments and questions during this block of time.

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Discussion
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12:30

Moderated discussion based on comments/questions submitted during the break

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Lunch/Board candidates
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14:30

Introduction of candidates for the Board elections during lunch

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Academic City
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15:30

15-minute presentation by Sargis Hayotsyan, followed by panel discussion.

Key questions: Governance challenges, risk assessment, infrastructure opportunities

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Break
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16:00

Use the QR code provided to submit your comments and questions during this block of time.

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Discussion
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17:00

Moderated discussion based on comments/questions submitted during the break

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Break/Coffee
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18:00
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Science & technology
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19:00

ASOF Conversations Video: Sarkis Mazmanian and Ardem Patapoutian

Key questions: Advanced Research in Computational Sciences & Artificial Intelligence (ARCS.ai) initiative; Plans, opportunities in the life sciences, A.I.’s interdisciplinary role, where are the fundamental sciences

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Break
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19:30

Use the QR code provided to submit your comments and questions during this block of time.

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Discussion
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20:30

ASOF Conversations Video: Lord Darzi and Ara Nazarian

Moderated discussion based on comments/questions submitted during the break

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Dinner
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Dinner is off-site. A list of recommended restaurants can be found on the logistics webpage.

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Coffee
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10:00
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Industry & education
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11:00

ASOF Conversations Video: Daron Acemoglu and André Andonian

Key questions: Education-industry pipeline, transnational collaborations, start-up ecosystem

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Break
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11:30

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Discussion
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12:00

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Lunch & Activities
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15:45

Zhingyalov Hats making

Gata making

Music

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Seismic Security
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16:30

Special presentation: Seismic safety task force

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ArCH and SIREH
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17:15

ASOF Conversations Video: Ronald Grigor Suny and Peter Balakian

Special presentation: SIREH operations update

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Break/Coffee
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18:00

Group photo on the roof, weather permitting. Otherwise, in the Atrium

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Artsakh
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19:00

ASOF Conversations Video: Atom Egoyan and Christina Maranci

Key questions: Artsakh higher education, right of return

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Break
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19:30

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Discussion
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20:30

Moderated discussion based on comments/questions submitted during the break

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Dinner
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Dinner is off-site. A list of recommended restaurants can be found on the logistics webpage.

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Coffee
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10:00
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Education pipeline
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10:30

Key questions: Quality assurance, the role of the teacher, technology in education, new law on higher education and science

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Break
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11:00

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Discussion
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20:30

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Lucy Abgaryan
Co Founder and CEO of Grittegen Therapeutics and Proone Labs, Advisor & Mentor of Entrepreneur programs at UC San Diego
Sos Agaian
Distinguished Professor, Computer Science Department, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Felix Aharonian
Chief Scientist at Yerevan State University (YSU); Chair Professor at University of Science and Tecnology of China (USTC); Professor Emeritus at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
Artur Alaverdyan
Co-Founder, Member of Board, Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology
Armen Allahverdyan
A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory
Arevik Anapiosyan
United Nations, Partnerships and Development Finance Adviser; Founding Board Member, Harvard Alumni Club of Armenia
Zhanna Andreasyan
Minister of Science, Education, Culture, and Sports
Ani Aprahamian
Freimann Professor of Physics at Notre Dame, Professor of Chemistry
Hakob Arshakyan
Deputy speaker of the parliament of the Republic of Armenia
Arevik Ashkharoyan
Owner and Literary Agent at ARI Literary and Talent Agency, Founder and Director at ARI Literature Foundation
Ani Avetisyan
Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge (FAMES), Research Affiliate, Woolf Institute, and Research Associate, St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Nora Ayanian
Professor, Brown University
Rafi Baghdjian
Advisor to the Centre for Scientific Innovation and Education Foundation
Diane Barber
Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco
Artak Beglaryan
Former State Minister and Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh, Chairman of the "Artsakh Union" NGO
Hrachoohi Boghosian
Founder and CEO of (CIPR) Center for Innovation Promotion and Research
Paul Boghossian
Professor of Philosophy, New York University, Dir. of the Inst. of Philosophy and GIAS
Valentina Calzolari Bouvier
Chair of Armenian Studies, University of Geneva
Gaianè Casnati
Europa Nostra Council member
Mark Chenian
UBS Financial Services Inc.
Garegin Chookaszian
co-founder and executive director of ITF, co-founder and the President of Information Technologies Education JSC
Taniel Danelian
Professor of Paleobiodiversity and Paleoenvironments, University of Lille
Asya Darbinyan
Executive Director, Chhange (Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education) at Brookdale Community College
Diana Davidova
Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Science of Armenia
Armen Der Kiureghian
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Jasmine Dum-Tragut
U. of Salzburg, Armenian Studies Division (head); Center for the Study of the Christian East (director); Senior scientist in Biblical Studies and Church History; Docent in General and Applied Linguistics; Blue Shield Armenia & Austria; Adjunct Prof. in Interdisciplinary Armenian Cultural Heritage Studies, Inst. of Archaeology and Ethnography; Etchmiadzin's Office for Artsakh Cultural and Spiritual Heritage Issues.
Karen Eguiazarian
Professor, Tampere University, Finland, and CEO of Noiseless Imaging Ltd
Al Eisaian
CEO Cognaize; Co-Founder and board member of IntelinAir, Inc.
David Essayan
Executive Vice President, ONCORD, Inc.
Anoush Fraser Terjanian
Fellow, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
Vache Gabrielyan
Dean of the Manoogian Simone College of Business and Economics American University of Armenia
Alen Gasparian Amirkhanian
Director, American University of Armenia Acopian Center for the Environment
Shamam Gevorgyan
Executive Director, "One Voice" Armenian Association of Independent schools
Aleksandr Gevorkyan
Henry George Chair in Economics and Professor, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University
Alina Gharabegian
AUA provost
Talinn Grigor
Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis
Seda Grigoryan
Documentary filmmaker (MA in Arts, University of West London), Head of Blue Shield Armenia for cultural heritage preservation
Emma Harutyunyan
Professor, NUACA; Chair of Theory and History of Architecture and Heritage
Sargis Hayotsyan
Chairman at Higher Education and Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia
Mkhitar Hayrapetyan
Minister of High-Tech Industry
Kim Hekimian
Associate Professor, Columbia University
Manuk Hergnyan
Managing Partner at Granatus Ventures, Managing Partner at Civitta AM
Ashot Hovanesian
CEO, Synergy International Systems
Mikayel Hovhanisyan
YSU Vice-rector for Development and Innovations/ Professor YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies, Chair of Arabic Studies
Nune Hovhannisyan
Associate Professor of Economics, Loyola University Maryland
Nina Hovnanian
CEO Hovnanian International, Founding Board Member Yerevan Biennial Arts Foundation, Founder and Creative Director Treasures of Armenia, Founding Director of the Former Armenian Tourism Development Agency
Susan Jerian
CEO, ONCORD, Inc.
Adam Kablanian
High-Tech Executive, Entrepreneur, and Investor Founder of Alexandrea Winery
Nanar Kalantarian
Researcher, Scientific Research Center of Historical and Cultural Heritage
Susanna Karakhanyan
Director for Policy and Regulation, Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge; Member of Accreditation Council, ANQA, Armenia
Sossie Kasbarian
University of Stirling
Lucineh Kassarjian
CXO and Principal Advisor Non-profits - Sensyan, Strategic Advisory Board Member - reArmenia
Raffi Kassarjian
American University of Armenia, Impact Hub Yerevan, Repat Armenia, EVN Report
Hrant Khachatrian
Director of YerevaNN; Data Scientist at IntelinAir
Robert Khachatryan
Head of Quality Control at Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), the UAE
Serob Khachatryan
Yerevan State University
Nerses Kopalyan
Associate Professor-in-Residence, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mariam Manoukian
Internal Medicine, Stanford Healthcare
Armen Marsoobian
Southern Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut
Armen Martirossyan
ARPA Technology Group, Principal
Armen Minassian
Architect, Assistant professor, and advisor to the NUACA, Member of EERI and AESA-NE
Lilit Mkrtchyan
Deputy Head for KZNAK
Gor Nazaryan
Teach for Armenia
Lilit Nersisyan
Director, Lab Leader, Armenian Bioinformatics Institute
Anna Ohanyan
Richard B. Finnegan Distinsuished Professor of International Relations, Stonehill College
Mary Papazian
Executive VP of the Association of Governing Boards for Universities and Colleges (AGB); former Professor of English and President, San Jose State University (retired)
Hrag Papazian
Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, California State University, Fresno
Marie Lou Papazian
Managing Director at Tumo Center for Creative Technologies
Mihran Papikian
Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Oshin Peroomian
CTO Metacomp Technologies, Inc. and Adjunct lecturer at the American University of Armenia
David Petrosyan
Research Director, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Fyoundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Vatche Sahakian
Burton Bettingen Professor in Theoretical Physics at Harvey Mudd College
Naira Sahakyan
Assistant Professor, American University of Armenia
Ara Sanjian
Director, Armenian Research Center, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Armen Sedrakian
Fellow at Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Professor, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Gayane Shagoyan
Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Nona Shahnazarian
Senior Research Fellow at Inst. of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS; Centre for Independent Social Research Armenia
Sergey Shakhverdyan
Former minister of culture of Artsakh
Suzanna Shamakhyan
Executive Director of Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
Gagik Shmavonyan
National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Head of Nanotechnology Laboratory
Anna Sirinian
Università di Bologna
Levon Tadevosyan
Executive Director at Technological Education Foundation
Hamest Tamrazyan
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Sipana Tchakerian
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris - UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée (team Monde Byzantin)
Henry Theriault
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Worcester State University
Nerses Yeritsyan
Ex-Deputy Governor at the Central Bank of Armenia
Vahan Zanoyan
Writer, Traveler, Anti-Trafficking Advocate, Global Energy Expert
Lucy Abgaryan
Co Founder and CEO of Grittegen Therapeutics and Proone Labs, Advisor & Mentor of Entrepreneur programs at UC San Diego
Sos Agaian
Distinguished Professor, Computer Science Department, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Felix Aharonian
Chief Scientist at Yerevan State University (YSU); Chair Professor at University of Science and Tecnology of China (USTC); Professor Emeritus at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
Artur Alaverdyan
Co-Founder, Member of Board, Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology
Armen Allahverdyan
A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory
Arevik Anapiosyan
United Nations, Partnerships and Development Finance Adviser; Founding Board Member, Harvard Alumni Club of Armenia
Zhanna Andreasyan
Minister of Science, Education, Culture, and Sports
Ani Aprahamian
Freimann Professor of Physics at Notre Dame, Professor of Chemistry
Hakob Arshakyan
Deputy speaker of the parliament of the Republic of Armenia
Arevik Ashkharoyan
Owner and Literary Agent at ARI Literary and Talent Agency, Founder and Director at ARI Literature Foundation
Ani Avetisyan
Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge (FAMES), Research Affiliate, Woolf Institute, and Research Associate, St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Nora Ayanian
Professor, Brown University
Rafi Baghdjian
Advisor to the Centre for Scientific Innovation and Education Foundation
Diane Barber
Professor, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco
Artak Beglaryan
Former State Minister and Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Artsakh, Chairman of the "Artsakh Union" NGO
Hrachoohi Boghosian
Founder and CEO of (CIPR) Center for Innovation Promotion and Research
Paul Boghossian
Professor of Philosophy, New York University, Dir. of the Inst. of Philosophy and GIAS
Valentina Calzolari Bouvier
Chair of Armenian Studies, University of Geneva
Gaianè Casnati
Europa Nostra Council member
Mark Chenian
UBS Financial Services Inc.
Garegin Chookaszian
co-founder and executive director of ITF, co-founder and the President of Information Technologies Education JSC
Taniel Danelian
Professor of Paleobiodiversity and Paleoenvironments, University of Lille
Asya Darbinyan
Executive Director, Chhange (Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education) at Brookdale Community College
Diana Davidova
Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Science of Armenia
Armen Der Kiureghian
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Jasmine Dum-Tragut
U. of Salzburg, Armenian Studies Division (head); Center for the Study of the Christian East (director); Senior scientist in Biblical Studies and Church History; Docent in General and Applied Linguistics; Blue Shield Armenia & Austria; Adjunct Prof. in Interdisciplinary Armenian Cultural Heritage Studies, Inst. of Archaeology and Ethnography; Etchmiadzin's Office for Artsakh Cultural and Spiritual Heritage Issues.
Karen Eguiazarian
Professor, Tampere University, Finland, and CEO of Noiseless Imaging Ltd
Al Eisaian
CEO Cognaize; Co-Founder and board member of IntelinAir, Inc.
David Essayan
Executive Vice President, ONCORD, Inc.
Anoush Fraser Terjanian
Fellow, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
Vache Gabrielyan
Dean of the Manoogian Simone College of Business and Economics American University of Armenia
Alen Gasparian Amirkhanian
Director, American University of Armenia Acopian Center for the Environment
Shamam Gevorgyan
Executive Director, "One Voice" Armenian Association of Independent schools
Aleksandr Gevorkyan
Henry George Chair in Economics and Professor, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University
Alina Gharabegian
AUA provost
Talinn Grigor
Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis
Seda Grigoryan
Documentary filmmaker (MA in Arts, University of West London), Head of Blue Shield Armenia for cultural heritage preservation
Emma Harutyunyan
Professor, NUACA; Chair of Theory and History of Architecture and Heritage
Sargis Hayotsyan
Chairman at Higher Education and Science Committee of the Republic of Armenia
Mkhitar Hayrapetyan
Minister of High-Tech Industry
Kim Hekimian
Associate Professor, Columbia University
Manuk Hergnyan
Managing Partner at Granatus Ventures, Managing Partner at Civitta AM
Ashot Hovanesian
CEO, Synergy International Systems
Mikayel Hovhanisyan
YSU Vice-rector for Development and Innovations/ Professor YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies, Chair of Arabic Studies
Nune Hovhannisyan
Associate Professor of Economics, Loyola University Maryland
Nina Hovnanian
CEO Hovnanian International, Founding Board Member Yerevan Biennial Arts Foundation, Founder and Creative Director Treasures of Armenia, Founding Director of the Former Armenian Tourism Development Agency
Susan Jerian
CEO, ONCORD, Inc.
Adam Kablanian
High-Tech Executive, Entrepreneur, and Investor Founder of Alexandrea Winery
Nanar Kalantarian
Researcher, Scientific Research Center of Historical and Cultural Heritage
Susanna Karakhanyan
Director for Policy and Regulation, Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge; Member of Accreditation Council, ANQA, Armenia
Sossie Kasbarian
University of Stirling
Lucineh Kassarjian
CXO and Principal Advisor Non-profits - Sensyan, Strategic Advisory Board Member - reArmenia
Raffi Kassarjian
American University of Armenia, Impact Hub Yerevan, Repat Armenia, EVN Report
Hrant Khachatrian
Director of YerevaNN; Data Scientist at IntelinAir
Robert Khachatryan
Head of Quality Control at Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK), the UAE
Serob Khachatryan
Yerevan State University
Nerses Kopalyan
Associate Professor-in-Residence, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mariam Manoukian
Internal Medicine, Stanford Healthcare
Armen Marsoobian
Southern Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut
Armen Martirossyan
ARPA Technology Group, Principal
Armen Minassian
Architect, Assistant professor, and advisor to the NUACA, Member of EERI and AESA-NE
Lilit Mkrtchyan
Deputy Head for KZNAK
Gor Nazaryan
Teach for Armenia
Lilit Nersisyan
Director, Lab Leader, Armenian Bioinformatics Institute
Anna Ohanyan
Richard B. Finnegan Distinsuished Professor of International Relations, Stonehill College
Mary Papazian
Executive VP of the Association of Governing Boards for Universities and Colleges (AGB); former Professor of English and President, San Jose State University (retired)
Hrag Papazian
Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, California State University, Fresno
Marie Lou Papazian
Managing Director at Tumo Center for Creative Technologies
Mihran Papikian
Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Oshin Peroomian
CTO Metacomp Technologies, Inc. and Adjunct lecturer at the American University of Armenia
David Petrosyan
Research Director, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Fyoundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
Vatche Sahakian
Burton Bettingen Professor in Theoretical Physics at Harvey Mudd College
Naira Sahakyan
Assistant Professor, American University of Armenia
Ara Sanjian
Director, Armenian Research Center, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Armen Sedrakian
Fellow at Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Professor, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Gayane Shagoyan
Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Nona Shahnazarian
Senior Research Fellow at Inst. of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS; Centre for Independent Social Research Armenia
Sergey Shakhverdyan
Former minister of culture of Artsakh
Suzanna Shamakhyan
Executive Director of Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST)
Gagik Shmavonyan
National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Head of Nanotechnology Laboratory
Anna Sirinian
Università di Bologna
Levon Tadevosyan
Executive Director at Technological Education Foundation
Hamest Tamrazyan
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Sipana Tchakerian
Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA), Paris - UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée (team Monde Byzantin)
Henry Theriault
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Worcester State University
Nerses Yeritsyan
Ex-Deputy Governor at the Central Bank of Armenia
Vahan Zanoyan
Writer, Traveler, Anti-Trafficking Advocate, Global Energy Expert