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2022 APRI FORUM SPEAKERS

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ABGAR BUDAGHYAN

Deputy Chief Of Party for USAID/Armenia Market Liberalization and Electricity Trade Program, Tetra Tech

Session | Armenia's Energy Transition     

June 16, 14:15
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AMBERIN ZAMAN

Senior Correspondent for Al-Monitor

Session | Turkey: Today and Tomorrow      

June 17, 16:30
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ANAHIT PARZYAN

Executive Director of “Nork Technology and Awareness Center for Social Services" Foundation

Session | The Briefing: Cyber Security and Critical Risks

June 16, 13:15
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ANAHIDE PILIBOSSIAN

Advisor, APRI Armenia

Session | Global Keynote: Skills for a 21st-Century Government (moderator)

June 15, 16:30
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ANNA OHANYAN

PhD, Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College

Session | Global Keynote/Panel Discussion on Armenia-Russia Relations

June 16, 17:45
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ARMAN TATOYAN

Professor at American University of Armenia

Session | eynote/Fireside Chat on Working Together in the Age of Division

June 15, 15:00
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ARMEN SAHAKYAN

Foreign Policy Fellow at APRI Armenia and an incoming Instructor at the American University of Armenia

Session | Iran: Today and Tomorrow (moderator)

June 16, 17:00
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ARTHUR MARTIROSYAN

Senior Consultant with the Bridgeway Group

Session | Peace/Negotiations: What Lies Beyond?

June 15, 17:00
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ASTGHINE PASOYAN

Adjunct Lecturer at the American University of Armenia

Session | Armenia's Energy Transition

June 16, 14:15
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DAVOUD 
GHARAYAGH-ZANDI

Assistant Professor in Political Science at Faculty of Economics and Political Science in Shahid Beheshti University

Session | Iran: Today and Tomorrow

June 16, 17:00
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GEORGI DERLUGUIAN

PhD. Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at the NYU Abu Dhabi Social Science Division

Session | Imagining and Managing Regional Integration

June 17, 13:45

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DARON ACEMOGLU

PhD, Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Global Keynote on Inclusive Institutions & Economic Growth 

June 16, 16:30
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ERIC HACOPIAN

CivilNet Host and Analyst

Sessions |

Global Keynote: Skills for a 21st-Century Government (moderator)

June 15, 16:30

Keynote/Fireside Chat with Tigran Jrbashyan on Armenia's Strategic Future (moderator)

June 17, 10:00

Imagining and Managing Regional Integration (moderator)

June 17, 13:45
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GEVORG POGHOSYAN

CEO at Impact Hub Yerevan

Session | The Briefing: Jobs, Labor and Sustainable Livelihoods

June 16, 13:45
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ANAHIT AVANESYAN

RA Minister of Health

Session | The Briefing: Public Health and Prosperity

June 17, 13:15
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ANDREY KORTUNOV

Director General of Russian International Affairs Council

Session | lobal Keynote/Panel Discussion on Armenia-Russia Relations

June 16, 17:45
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ARMEN DARBINYAN

Rector of Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University

Session | Keynote/Fireside Chat on Building a Bridge to the Future

June 16, 16:00
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ARTUR PAPYAN

Co-founder at CyberHUB-AM

Session | The Briefing: Cyber Security and Critical Risks

June 16, 13:15
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DAVID AKOPYAN

Senior Advisor Crisis, Fragility and Complexity, former UNDP Director

Sessions |

Opening and Welcome

June 15, 13:30

Leading Armenia in Times of Crisis

June 16, 11:00
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ERIK KHZMALYAN

Investment Promotion and Foreign Relations Manager at
Enterprise Armenia

Session | Global keynote with Reuben Abraham (moderator)

June 16, 10:30
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GRIGOR HOVHANNISYAN

Chairman of the Board of Directors Ararat Bank

Session | The Future of the West in the Caucasus 

June 17, 15:30
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HAYK SHEKYAN

Founder and CEO of Shtigen Ltd

Session | Armenia's Energy Transition

June 16, 14:15
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JASANDRA NYKER

CEO at Nala Renewables Limited

Session | Armenia's Energy Transition

June 16, 14:15
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KONSTANTIN KURYLEV

Professor at the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Session | Global Keynote/Panel Discussion Armenia-Russia Relations

June 16, 17:45
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LISA WITTER

CEO at Apolitical

Session | Global Keynote on Skills for a 21st Century Government

June 15, 16:30
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MARTIN GALSTYAN

Governor of the Central Bank of Armenia

Session |  Opening Keynote

June 15, 14:30
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HENRI ARSLANIAN

Adjunct Professor, University of Hong Kong

Session | (Re)thinking Foreign Policy: Armenia–China Relations (moderator)

June 17, 11:00
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KAREN ARABYAN

COO at Amber Capital Armenia

Session | Armenia's Energy Transition

June 16, 14:15
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IOANA POPESCU

PhD,  Professor of Decision Sciences and Strategy & Professor in Strategic Revenue Management at INSEAD

Session | Global Keynote on Decision-making in Times of Crisis

June 15, 18:00
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KIM HEKIMIAN

PhD, Assistant Professor of Nutrition (in Pediatrics and the Institute of Human Nutrition) at Columbia University

Session | The Briefing: Public Health and Prosperity

June 17, 13:15
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LARA SETRAKIAN

Impact Partner at Fresco Capital

Sessions |
Opening and Welcome  | June 15, 13:30
Opening Keynote (moderator) | June 15, 14:30

Global Keynote with Ioana Popescu on
Decision-Making in Times of Crisis (moderator)
| June 15, 18:00

Armenia’s Energy Transition (moderator)
June 16, 14:15


Keynote/Fireside Chat with Armen Darbinyan (moderator) on Building a Bridge to the Future | June 16, 16:00

Turkey: Today and Tomorrow  (moderator)
June 17, 16:30

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LEONID NERSISYAN

Defense analyst, CEO of Armenian Research & Development Institute

Session | Global Keynote/Panel Discussion Armenia-Russia Relations (moderator)

June 16, 17:45
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LUSINE MANUKYAN

Senior Adviser at Local Government Association, UK

Session | Welcome Back and Keynote Fireside Chat (moderator)

June 16, 10:00
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MARIA TITIZIAN

Editor-in-Chief of EVN Report

Sessions |

Peace/Negotiations: What Lies Beyond? (moderator) June 15, 17:00

Leading Armenia Through Times of Crisis (moderator) | June 16, 11:00

The Future of the West i the Caucasus (moderator) | June 17, 15:30

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MHER SAHAKYAN

PhD, Founder and director of the China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research

Session | (re)Thinking Foreign Policy Armenia-China Relations Panel Discussion

June 17, 11:00
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NANA SHAKHNAZARYAN

Strategic Development Fellow, APRI

Session | Leading Armenia Global Keynote on What we have learned in 3 Years? 30 Years? 3000 Years? (moderator)

June 17, 10:30
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NARE HAROYAN

Advisor to the RA Minister of Economy

Session | (re)Thinking Foreign Policy Armenia-China Relations

June 17, 11:00
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NARGES BAJOGHLI

Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins SAIS

Session | Welcome Back and Keynote Fireside Chat (moderator)

June 16, 10:00
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NERSES KOPALYAN

PhD, Associate professor-in-residence of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Sessions |

Peace/Negotiations: What Lies Beyond?

June 15, 17:00

Global Keynote/Panel Discussion

June 16, 17:45

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NERSES OHANYAN

SVP of Customer Success at Vineti

Session | The Briefing: Cyber Security and Critical Risks

June 16, 13:15
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OLESYA VARTANYAN

International Crisis Group's Senior Analyst for the South Caucasus region

Sessions |

Peace/Negotiations: What Lies Beyond?

June 15, 17:00 

Future of the West in the Caucasus

June 17, 15:30
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P. TERRENCE HOPMANN

PhD, Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS

Sessions | Peace/Negotiations: What Lies Beyond?

June 15, 17:00
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PAUL STRONSKI

Senior fellow in Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program

Session | The Future of the West in the Caucasus

June 17, 15:30
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RAFFI KASSARJIAN

CEO and Principal Advisor at Sensyan

Session | Global Keynote on Inclusive Institutions & Economic Growth (moderator)

June 16, 16:30
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REUBEN ABRAHAM

CEO of IDFC Foundation and IDFC Institute

Session | Global Keynote on (re)Thinking Economic Development

June 16, 10:30
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ROBERTA ERVINE

PhD, Professor of Armenian Christian Studies at the St. Nersess Armenian Seminary

Session | Global Keynote on Toward Armenian Renaissance

June 17, 17:15
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STEVEN A. COOK

Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars at the Council on Foreign Relations

Session | Turkey: Today and Tomorrow

June 17, 16:30
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SARA ANJARGOLIAN

Senior advisor on governance to the RA Minister of Health and the RA Minister of Justice

Session | Keynote Fireside Chat on Public Sector Innovation / Policy Entrepreneurship

June 16, 10:00
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TALINE PAPAZIAN

PhD, Political scientist and professor at the Sciences Po (Aix-en-Provence)

Session | The Future of the West in the Caucasus

June 17, 15:30 
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GREG OHANNESSIAN

Session | The Briefing: Jobs, Labor and Sustainable Livelihoods (moderator)

June 16, 13:45
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VACHE GABRIELYAN

PhD, Dean of Manoogian Simone College of Business and Economics at the American University of Armenia

Session | Leading Armenia through times of Crisis

June 16, 11:00
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STEPHAN ASTOURIAN

PhD, William Saroyan Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley

Session | Global Keynote on What we have learned in 3 Years? In 30 Years? In 3000 Years?

June 17, 10:30
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TIGRAN JRBASHYAN

Partner, Director of Management Advisory Services at Ameria CJSC

Session | Keynote/Fireside Chat on Armenia's Strategic Future

June 17, 10:00
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VAHRAM TER-MATEVOSYAN 

PhD, Associate professor and chair of Political Science and International Affairs (PSIA) program at American University of Armenia

Session | Turkey: Today and Tomorrow

June 17, 16:30
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VARUZHAN GEGHAMYAN

PhD, Assistant professor in Yerevan State University (Department of Oriental Studies)

Session | Turkey: Today and Tomorrow

June 17, 16:30

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VASKEN YACOUBIAN

President of AGBU Armenia

Session | Opening and Welcome

June 15, 13:30

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VICTORIA AYDINYAN

Advisor to the RA Minister of Labor and Social Affairs

Session | The Briefing: Jobs, Labor and Sustainable Livelihoods

June 16, 13:45
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YERVANT ZORIAN

Chief Architect at Synopsys

Sessions |
Keynote/Fireside Chat with Arman Tatoyan (moderator)
June 15, 15:00 

Global keynote with Ioana Popescu (moderator)
June 15, 18:00

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YUN-TIAN ZHENG

PhD, Associate professor at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China

Session | (re)Thinking Foreign Policy Armenia-China Relations

June 17, 11:00 
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