Email:  Adrian.Florea@glasgow.ac.uk

Email: dickrank@mail.fresnostate.edu
Phone: +1 (559) 278-2669

Dr Dickran Kouymjian holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from the American University of Beirut, and a Ph.D. in Armenian Studies from Columbia University’s Department of Near & Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures. Since 1988 he has served as the first incumbent of the Haig & Isabel Berberian Endowed Chair of Armenian Studies at Fresno State. He has been teaching for over 40 years at numerous institutions. He is a member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Erevan. He has taught a wide range of subjects: Armenian, Islamic, Classical, and Byzantine history and art, Western and Oriental humanities, film, genocide, and Saroyan studies. In all these fields, Professor Kouymjian has published regularly with a dozen books and some 100 academic articles to his credit. He has also presented scholarly papers at more than 80 national and international conferences and has himself organised a number of such conferences. He is a member of ten professional societies, a Fellow of the American Numismatic Society, and four-time president of the Society for Armenian Studies, of which he was one of the founders. Professor Kouymjian has acted as an expert for over 30 years for issues in Armenia.

Email: r.turaeva@gmail.com

Dr Hoehne Turaeva Rano is a country expert and an academic with extensive fieldwork experience and providing expert reports (100+) for more than 40 firms in the UK, US, Netherlands, and Canada with areas of expertise such as but not limited to:

• Authentication documents originating from countries of expertise
• Country reports on the indicated countries of expertise
• Minority groups, religious groups
• Political, social and cultural groups, LGBT
• Organised crime and mafia, state crime
• Extremist and violent groups, including religious groups
• Human rights violations
• Women issues: honour killing
• Human trafficking
• Psychiatry and prison conditions
• Disadvantaged groups e.g. children, minorities, mentally ill, disabled, terminally ill
• Availability of medical services
• State structure, military and security services
• Drug dealing and trafficking

Marilisa Lorusso, PhD on Democracy and Human Rights, MA in Russian Language and Literature, BA in Diplomacy. She has taught several courses in history, Eastern Europe, international relations, domestic and foreign politics, business, literature and culture in many universities (İstanbul Üniversitesi, Turkey; El Manar, Tunisia; American University, Armenia; Università Degli Studi di Genova, Italy). She is a permanent co-operator of Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa, an Italian think tank, and writes for different centres of studies. She was deployed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the post-war European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM), where she was field office gender focal point; she was appointed as EU Council Secretariat for the post-war diplomatic discussions held in Geneva. She is a Country of Origin Expert aslo for the US Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, for the UK Electronic Immigration Network and she provided report on a wide area of expertise (climate-related issues, disability, public health and services, forced marriage, LGBTQ+ issues, domestic violence, military/police service, prison conditions, civil and political rights, gang-related violence, minority issues, refugees and IDPs, war and post-conflict response).

Her list of open-source publications is available at http://marilisalorusso.blogspot.com and https://independent.academia.edu/MLorusso

Email: og01@aub.edu.lb

Dr Ohannes Geukjian is a Lebanese citizen of Armenian descent. He received his PhD in 2005 from the Department of Peace Studies in Bradford University UK and wrote his dissertation on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Ethno-Territorial Conflict in the South Caucasus. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Studies and Conflict Resolution at the American University of Beirut. He has also taught Human Rights at the Lebanese American University for many years. He conducted field work in Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan) and Armenia. His main focus of research is on Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia. He has published several articles on the South Caucasus particularly Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia. He has particular expertise in the areas of ethnicity, identity, nation, socio-economic discrimination and human rights. He also has an in-depth knowledge of the situation on the ground in Nagorno-Karabakh. He speaks Armenian, Arabic, as well as English.