Gevorg Martiki Ghukasyan
Candidate of Political Sciences | Director of the Hrayr Marukhian Foundation
From 2010 to 2016, he studied at the Faculty of History of Yerevan State University (YSU). From 2017 to 2022, he pursued doctoral studies at the Department of Political Governance and Public Policy of the Academy of Public Administration of the Republic of Armenia, specializing in Political Institutions and Processes.
From 2017 to 2018, he attended the Yerevan School of Political Studies, part of the Council of Europe Schools of Political Studies network.
In 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “The Armenian Lobby in Europe as an Actor in the Development of Armenia-EU Relations” and was awarded the academic degree of Candidate of Political Sciences.
Since August 2026, he has been enrolled in the Translation Certificate Program at the American University of Armenia (AUA).
From 2016 to 2018, he worked at the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Development of the Republic of Armenia.
In 2017, he completed professional training at the Joint Vienna Institute. In 2018, he undertook a three-month professional placement at the Secretariat of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group in the European Parliament.
Between 2018 and 2023, he regularly participated in training programs and professional visits to the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) offices in Washington, D.C., and Brussels. He also conducted professional research at the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Central Archives in Boston.
Since November 2020, he has served as Programs Coordinator at the ARF Armenian National Committee Central Office.
Since January 2025, he has been a lecturer at the Department of Psychology and Political Science of the Academy of Public Administration of the Republic of Armenia. His teaching subjects include Political Analysis and Forecasting, Political Lobbying, and European Studies.
Since July 2025, he has served as Director of the Hrayr Marukhian Foundation.
His academic interests include international relations; the negotiation process surrounding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; Armenia-EU relations; political developments within Europe; the institution of lobbying, particularly ethnic lobbying; the formation and development of the Armenian Cause (Hay Tad) network; transformations within contemporary diasporas and their influence on international relations; political modernization; soft power theory; multiculturalism; and the history and contemporary challenges of European social democracy, among other subjects.
He is the author of six academic papers and more than 60 articles and publications in the field of public affairs and political commentary.
He is married and has three children.